The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Sapper (Spr) Mervyn Chesson of Croydon Park, SA, probes cautiously for a mine with his bayonet while Spr Kevin Atkinson of Merretin, WA, checks for other mines with a detector. The two soldiers, from the 1st Field Squadron, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE), were attached to a troop of armoured personnel carriers (APCs) from B Squadron, 3rd Cavalry Regiment, which was sweeping an area twenty miles east of the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) base at Nui Dat. The sweep resulted in the destruction of a Viet Cong vegetable garden which was hidden in a patch of jungle.
Trooper Graham McGlone of Morley Park, SA, manoeuvres his armoured personnel carrier (APC) through a Viet Cong (VC) garden hidden in the jungle twenty miles east of the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF
Within an instant of emptying an M60 machine gun Lance Corporal (L/Cpl) Leonard (Len) Ellcombe of Heidelberg, Vic, kneeling on an armoured personnel carrier (APC) grabs his M16 rifle and one-handed re
Within an instant of emptying an M60 machine gun Lance Corporal (L/Cpl) Len Ellcombe of Heidelberg, Vic, grabs his M16 rifle and, one-handed, returns the fire of a Viet Cong (VC) group who are attempt
Using his headphones and a metal detector, 62025 Sapper (Spr) Darryel Binns (left), of Pyngana, Tas, has located an unidentified object buried in the scrub adjacent to Route 2 (the main north south ro
1736686 Sapper (Spr) Stephen Henry Armbrust (left) of Cairns, Qld, using headphones and a metal detector to locate mines, while 62025 Spr Darryel Binns (right) of Pyngana, Tas, is carefully using his
A cigarette and a meal for Lance Corporal Barry Hobbs of Bendigo, Vic (left) and Sergeant Dave Robberts of Warwick Farm, NSW, both of 2 Troop, B Squadron, 3rd Cavalry Regiment, Royal Australian Armour
