The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Bien Hoa Provience, Vietnam. 1965. Warrant Officer (WO) 2 Tom Wahlin of Stafford, Brisbane, Qld, sits on a box during a rest break and reads a Time magazine during an Australian-American operation against the Viet Cong in the Cong Thanh area. WO Whalin is the bandmaster of 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), regimental band and was attached to the medical unit during the operation.
Bien Hoa, Vietnam. 1965. Troops from the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), file into Iroquois helicopters lined up at the airfield, at the start of a combined Australian-American op
An Australian soldier directs the crew of an American helicopter on to a jungle landing zone in the Cong Thanh district of Bien Hoa province during a combined Australian-American operation against the
Private Tom Lupton of Hay, NSW, takes a short rest and checks in on a field telephone to headquarters of the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), during the combined Australian and Ame
Vietnam. 1966-02-09. Warrant Officer (WO) Tom Wahlin, bandmaster of the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), moves through a shell-blasted banana plantation at Phuoc Loc, during a sear
Cong Thanh, Vietnam. 1965. Two helicopters land in a jungle clearing after a recent combined Australian-American operation in the Bien Hoa province. In the foreground is an Australian Sioux helicopte
Bien Hoa Province, Vietnam. 1965. Bricks, concrete and earth shower skywards as a Viet Cong reinforced bunker is exploded in Xam Cay Xaoi village, Cong Thanh district, by members of 3rd Field Troop, R
