The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Australian guard, Lance Corporal Gary Bland of Fairfield, Sydney, NSW, protects loyal Montagnard soldiers deep in the jungle as they remove bags of rice stock-piled by the Viet Cong for wet season operations against the South Vietnamese government. Australians taking part in Operation Abilene, thirty five miles from Saigon, found two Communist food caches containing 1000 x 200lb bags of rice. They gave it all to the loyal Montagnards protecting a nearby village.
Australian guard, Corporal Russ Hocking of Ballarat, Vic, protects loyal Montagnard soldiers deep in the jungle as they remove bags of rice stockpiled by the Viet Cong for wet season operations agains
The site in the jungle of a Viet Cong rice cache disappears in a welter of flame and smoke as Australian Army engineers set off demolition charges during Operation Abilene in South Vietnam, after the
Wounded Viet Cong on a stretcher is given swift medical aid by Australian Corporal Bob Howe of Granville, NSW, during Operation Abilene, a search and destroy mission involving Australian troops thirty
Helping to stack bags of rice recovered from a hidden Viet Cong cache is 55186 Private Ronald Francis (Ron) Aslan of Fremantle, Perth, WA (left). Private Aslan is a member of 9 Platoon, C Company, the
Vietnam. 1966-01. Deck chairs and surf boards gave Australian troops a breath of home when they spent a seven-day holiday at the seaside resort of Vung Tau, where a new rest and convalescence centre h
