The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Four soldiers of D Company, 6RAR /NZ (ANZAC) (The ANZAC Battalion comprising 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment and a component from the 1st Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment), back in base after Operation Quyet Thang, a joint operation with the 3rd Battalion, 52nd Regiment of the 18th Division of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). Left to right: Lance Corporal Bill Henney of Ingham, Qld, with an M16 automatic rifle; Pte Montey Paul of Glen Huon, Tas, with a 7.62mm SLR rifle; Private (Pte) Leonard Bartz of South Brook, Qld, with an M60 machine gun; Corporal Brian Halls of Stafford, Qld, with an M16 automatic rifle and carrying a radio. Theirs had been a gruelling five-days, 1969-11-02 to 1969-11-06, patrolling the mountainous Nui Thi Vai area. D Company had spent the previous six weeks from 1969-09-15 to 1969-11-03 retraining the Vietnamese in Australian tactics at the Horseshoe. Corporal Halls had also taken part in the Battle of Long Tan as a member of D Company.
Four soldiers of D Company, 6RAR /NZ (ANZAC) (The ANZAC Battalion comprising 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment and a component from the 1st Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment),
Armed with an M16 automatic rifle and carrying a radio, Corporal (Cpl) Brian Halls of Stafford, Qld, threads his way through the jungle. He was the leader of four soldiers from D Company, 6RAR /NZ (AN
Corporal (Cpl) Brian Halls of Stafford, Qld, discusses with a Vietnamese platoon commander their location during joint operations, Operation Quyet Thang, in the Nui Thi Vai area. D Company, 6RAR /NZ (
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. 1969-04-18. Armed with an M16 automatic rifle and carrying a radio, Private Peter Aylward of Warwick, Qld, a signaller with C Company, 9th Battalion, The Royal Austr
Iroquois helicopters of No. 9 Squadron RAAF prepare to land and pick-up soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, 52nd Regiment of the 18th Division of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). The soldiers
South Vietnam. 1969-06. Corporal (Cpl) Jeffrey Swain of Verdun, SA, gives a wounded North Vietnamese Army (NVA) soldier a drink while Cpl Gordon Black of Townsville, Qld, supports his head. Both soldi
