The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Vietnam. 1966-09-08. Trooper Tony Welsh of Reservoir, Vic, stepped inside at a rubber factory, when armoured personnel carriers halted during a routine patrol of the village. Binh Ba is now protected by Task Force units, after being freed from years of Communist domination.
Binh Ba, Vietnam. 1966-08. Private (Pte) Fred Robertson of Abbotsford, NSW (left), and Pte Andrew Fenech of Mascot, NSW, talking to a girl in the doorway of her home after the village was freed from y
In the Binh Ba village freed from years of Communist domination by the Australian Army, Captain Ron Slade of Brisbane, Qld (left), confers with the village Roman Catholic priest, Father Joseph Cong. A
Binh Ba, Vietnam. 1966-08. Private (Pte) Tony Whitfield of Mandurah, WA (left), and Pte Jim Calder of Rosewood, Qld, receive bananas from Vietnamese children during Operation Holsworthy. Soldiers of t
Binh Ba, Vietnam. 1966-09. First taste of milk for two Vietnamese children. Lieutenant John Howard of Puckapunyal, Vic, stopped his armoured personnel carrier in the village to offer a drink from a ca
Binh Ba, Vietnam. 1966-08. Sapper (Spr) Col Schirmer of Lockhart, NSW (left), and Spr Chris Lorard of Frankston, Vic, both of 1 Field Squadron, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE), lopped rubber trees in
Vietnam. 1966-08. Lieutenant John Hartley of Nambour, Qld (right), and two Vietnamese interpreters question a woman in the village of Binh Ba, during Operation Holsworthy. The village was entered afte
