The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 American operation against the Viet Cong in the Cong Thanh area. The officer in the rear is Major Jim Tattum and the officer in the middle is 21C Captain Michael Le Bars.
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 aga
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
Resupply of ammunition in the Vietnam jungle for the 105th Field Battery, Royal Australian Artillery, by a US Army Iroquois helicopter. The Australians and American forces were on a combined operation
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
A helicopter hovers above elephant grass that's waist high but didn't impede the troops from the Australian mortar crew as they moved into position with their weapons in the Cong Thanh area. They were
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
