The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A Sapper of 3 Field Troop emerges from a Viet Cong (VC) tunnel by way of a trapdoor in the ground during Operation Crimp in the Ho Bo Woods with troops of 1 Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR). The trapdoor of concrete is covered with earth and grass and saplings are grown in it so that it carefully blends in with the rest of the vegetation, and is virtually impossible to detect.
A soldier, probably a sapper of 3 Field Troop down the bunker and near the entrance to a tunnel used by Viet Cong during Operation Crimp in Ho Bo Woods. They were on a search and destroy operation wit
A soldier, probably a sapper of 3 Field Troop down the bunker and near the entrance to a tunnel used by Viet Cong during Operation Crimp in Ho Bo Woods. They were on a search and destroy operation wit
54726 2nd Lieutenant John Patrick (Lofty) Dwyer of 1 Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR) - his platoon were known as "Dwyer's Dwarfs" - standing in front of a typical Viet Cong bunker in H
One of the scores of trapdoors uncovered by 1 Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), during Operation Crimp in Ho Bo Woods. Troops uncovered a network of Viet Cong tunnels that contained we
Vietnam. 1966-01-13. Kiwis lent support to Australian troops who uncovered a huge Viet Cong tunnel complex during Operation Crimp in the Ho Bo Woods north-west of Saigon. Lance Bombardier (L Bdr) Davi
Truckloads of Viet Cong documents were captured by troops of 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), when they unearthed a huge tunnel complex in the area known as Ho Bo Woods, north-west of
