The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Vietnam. 1966-10. 15516 Sergeant Leslie John Turner of Stafford Heights, Brisbane, Qld, serving with the 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), helps Lok, a Vietnamese interpreter now serving with the 1st Australian Task Force in Phuoc Tuy Province, to fire a gun in the prone position. Lok is one of nine former university students specially selected and taught English so they can work as interpreters with the Australian Army. They were given a six-day course in military skills to enable them to accompany diggers on operations.
Vietnam. 1966-10. Warrant Officer 2 J. Vagg, training Vietnamese interpreters in military skills. A Vietnamese student lies in the prone position to fire a gun with a blindfold over one eye.
Vietnam. 1966-10. C Company, the 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), training Vietnamese interpreters in military skills. They are being advised on breech block slide from the Austral
Vietnam. 1966-10. 1730987 Private Reg Lillywhite, the 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), explaining the workings of the M26 grenade while training Vietnamese interpreters in military
Vung Tau, Vietnam. 1966-09. Top students in the Combined Language Course were Private Michael Dempsey of Liverpool, NSW (right), and Truong Ngoc Hoan, being congratulated by the local province chief,
Interpreters are almost as important as rifles to the Australian Army in Vietnam, where interrogation of villagers and Vietcong suspects can mean the difference between clean victories and fruitless s
Ong Huong, Vietnam. 1966-06. Private John Sewell of Roseberry, Sydney, NSW, helps Vietnamese children in their playground on the swing set built by soldiers of the Royal Australian Electrical and Mech
