The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Binh Ba, South Vietnam. 1970-01. Mobile dentist, Captain David Coates of Wagga Wagga, NSW, extracts the tooth of a Vietnamese Popular Force soldier at the rubber plantation village. Assisting the dentist is Corporal Gerald Bailey of Newcastle, NSW. Both men are members of the 33rd Dental Unit and were treating the villagers during a cordon and search of the village by troops of 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR).
Binh Ba, South Vietnam. 1970-01. Armoured personnel carriers (APCs) of B Squadron, 3rd Cavalry Regiment, rumble through the rubber plantation village, homeward bound for the 1st Australian Task Force
Binh Ba, South Vietnam, 1970-01. A well beside a house, a possible hiding place of the enemy, is checked by soldiers of 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), during a cordon and search
Binh Ba, South Vietnam, 1970-01. Handing some rice and surplus rations to a Vietnamese villager is the catering officer of the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF), Second Lieutenant Ross Tucker of Bondi,
Binh Ba, South Vietnam. 1970-01. The crew commander of an armoured personnel carrier (APC), no. 32 4349, gives 'thumbs up' for a job well done. The APC, from B Squadron, 3rd Cavalry Regiment, was retu
Binh Ba, South Vietnam, 1970-01. A soldier from 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), probes the rubble of an old house with his bayonet during a cordon and search of the village in Phu
With the rubber trees of Gallia plantation behind them, members of the 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), open packets of food or rations on a trestle table as they prepare a meal fo
