The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Vung Tau, Vietnam. 1966-05-26. Troops of the 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), move through overgrown banana plantation and pepper tree country on the first day of Operation Hardihood, rifles ready for enemy contact. Their faces are smeared to camouflage their pale skin.
Vung Tau, Vietnam. 1966-05-26. Alert troops of the 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), move through overgrown banana plantation and pepper tree country on the first day of Operation H
A group of Vietnamese found in a house by soldiers of the 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), are guarded while Private Hugh Evans of Hobart, Tas, signals in the information. Afterwar
Members of the 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), playing a game of Australian Rules football at Vung Tau beach before being deployed on Operation Hardihood (24 May 1966).
Members of the 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), playing a game of Australian Rules football at Vung Tau beach before being deployed on Operation Hardihood (24 May 1966).
Members of the 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), playing a game of Australian Rules football at Vung Tau beach, acclimitising before being deployed on Operation Hardihood (24 May 19
Vietnam. 1966-06. Troops of the 5th Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), unloaded US C-rations from a UH-1D Iroquois helicopter of the US "Vung Tau Tigers" helicopter unit during Operation
