The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Vietnam. 1967-08. Corporal Reg Atkins of Wodonga, Vic, with a bandaged head, tells Australian Red Cross Field Force worker, Miss Robin Harris of Pyrmont, WA, how he received his head wound during Operation Ballarat. Corporal Atkins was a medical assistant with the 8th Field Ambulance detachment at 1st Australian Task Force Headquarters at Nui Dat and volunteered his services for Dust Off, the aerial medical evacuation service used for urgent lift out of wounded diggers. He received his wound when the helicopter he was in was fired upon.
Vung Tau, Vietnam. 1967-08. Major General Donald Vincent, Commander of the Australian Force, visits Second Lieutenant (2nd Lt) Graham Ross of Cobram, Vic (right), a patient in hospital. 2nd Lt Ross re
Vung Tau, Vietnam. 1967-09. Representatives of the Australian and New Zealand Red Cross Society, Miss Robin Harris of Claremont, WA (left), and Miss Marie Hunter of Adelaide, SA, look over the shoulde
Vietnam. 1967-11. Bombardier John Fongkee of Penshurst, NSW, examines a shrapnel hole in his tent during Operation Santa Fe in the north-east of Phuoc Tuy Province. Viet Cong placed and fired a Claymo
With head raised, South Vietnam's Prime Minister, Air Vice Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky (centre), stands in a gun emplacement and watches the path of an 81 millimetre mortar bomb he has just fired. Prime Min
VUNG TAU, VIETNAM. AUGUST 1967. MAJOR GENERAL DONALD VINCENT OF CANBERRA, ACT, COMMANDER OF AUSTRALIAN FORCES, GETS A FIRST HAND RUNDOWN FROM A MEMBER OF THE 7TH BATTALION, THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN REGIME
With scalpel in hand, medical officer 2146748 Captain Jack Blomley (bare chested at centre) carries out a minor surgical procedure on the head of an SAS soldier at the the forward section of 8 Field A
