The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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) base at Nui Dat. A troop of APCs from B Squadron, 3rd Cavalry Regiment, found the garden on the edge of a clearing; the surrounding jungle providing an overhead canopy which prevented detection from the air. Before the Australians moved on to continue their sweep of the area they destroyed the vegetable rich garden. Note the APC in the background with the call sign 10B.
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
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
Lance Corporal Colin Mooney of Woodbridge, Qld (with M60 machine gun), and Private Stephen Gage of Wonthaggi, Vic, both members of D Company, 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), wait
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
Thua Tich, South Vietnam. 1969-06. An armoured personnel carrier (APC) from 2 Troop of B Squadron, 3rd Cavalry Regiment, manoeuvres around the bodies of two dead Viet Cong (VC) killed in an attack on
312601 Lance Corporal (L/Cpl) Leonard (Len) Ellcombe of Heidelberg, Vic, standing on an Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC), blazes away with an M60 machine gun at a Viet Cong (VC) rocket launcher crew t
