The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 when they swept through a rubber plantation in the Phuoc Tuy Province.
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. 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
Vietnam. 1966. After a night of constant rain, Private Geoffrey Scott of Mt Kuring-gai, NSW, spreads gear to dry during Operation Hardihood in which troops of the 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian R
Vietnam. 1966. Troops of the 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), walking in single file, cross a deserted rice paddy in the Phuoc Tuy Province during Operation Hardihood.
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
Soldiers of the 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), dash for cover after having been fired on in a jungle clearing by a Viet Cong sniper during Operation Hardihood, north of Vung Tau
