The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Assault pioneers of 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), wait in their boat with motor running, close into a heavily wooded bank of the Song Rai River while other members of the group search among the mangroves on Operation Portsea. The men are members of the Assault Pioneer Platoon, Support Company 6 RAR.
16904 Private Peter Harding of Ballina (NSW), paddles out from the bank of a tributary of the Song Rai River in a boat which had been secreted among mangroves by the Viet Cong. Assault pioneers from t
Members of A Company, 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), leave an assault craft to search through mangrove swamps, after having been ferried by boat across a deep alligator infested
Weapons at the ready, Assault Pioneers of 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), move along a tributary of the Song Rai River watching for recent signs of Viet Cong activity. The Pioneer
Moving through mangrove swamps along a tributary of the Song Rai River, members of A Company, 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), pick their way between tree roots on Operation Portse
South Vietnam. 1967. Struggling through a mangrove swamp during Operation Portsea is 2781995 Private Bernd Wesiak of Merrylands, NSW, a soldier of A Company, 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regime
Part of the song Rai River in the east of Phuoc Tuy Province was searched during operation 'Portsea' by soldiers of the Assault Pioneer Platoon of the 6th Battalion RAR. The platoon launched aluminiu
