The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Two soldiers from the 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR) watch a deserted house as it is razed by flames during Operation Ainslie.
The troops destroyed the old village after resettling villagers in new homes near the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) base at Nui Dat.
Xa Bang, South Vietnam. September 1967. A soldier from 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR) helps Vietnamese villagers to remove personal effects and pumpkins before they evacuated thei
Xa Bang, South Vietnam. September 1967. Troops from 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR) check Vietnamese houses and prepare to take a census of inhabitants and their possessions in the
A Vietnamese woman stacks pumpkins at the village ready for transport to a new village built near the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) base, Nui Dat. Villagers and their possessions were resettled in
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. September 1967. Two 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR) soldiers move away from a thatched Vietnamese house after having fired it on Operation Ainsli
Xa Bang, South Vietnam. September 1967. Sapper (Spr) Les Carruthers of Five Dock, NSW, uses a mine detector to search for booby traps that may have been left by the Viet Cong (VC) at the village. Spr
Vietnam. 1967-09. With the fire stoked and burning well in a Vietnamese house in flames behind him, Private Laurie Connor of Preston, Vic, takes a break to wipe his forehead. Earlier, during Operation
