The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Vietnam. 1966. Searching a captured Viet Cong stronghold is Sapper Biddolph of Bexley, NSW, during Operation Hardihood. Soldiers from the 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), flushed a battalion of Viet Cong from the rubber plantation. The enemy left behind large stocks of food, ammunition, and personal belongings. The ammunition was later blown up by the Australians.
Vietnam. 1966. A Viet Cong weapon pit and sleeping bag is searched by Sapper Peter Gachia of Brisbane, Qld, for food and ammunition during Operation Hardihood. He found large quantities of rice, salt
Vietnam. 1966. Members of the 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), in captured Viet Cong (VC) bunkers during Operation Hardihood. The Australians took over a VC Battalion's entire camp
Vietnam. 1966. Members of the 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), in captured Viet Cong (VC) bunkers during Operation Hardihood. The Australians took over a VC Battalion's entire camp
Vietnam. 1966-10-01. Viet Cong suspects are guarded in a clearing in a rubber plantation by soldiers of D Company, the 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), during Operation Crows Nest.
Vietnam. 1966. Corporal Mick Mavromatis of Port Pirie, SA (left), and Private Ken Edmunds, both of the 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), search goods left behind by the Viet Cong in
Vietnam. 1966. Corporal Vince Cleary of Lansvale, Sydney, NSW (right), and Private Edward Allen of Green Valley, Sydney, NSW (left), both of the 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), e
