The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 returning to its base at Nui Dat after a cordon and search of the rubber plantation village in Phuoc Tuy Province. Soldiers from the 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), conducted the search, which resulted in the detention of twenty nine suspected Viet Cong supporters.
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. 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 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
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 dent
A Centurion Mk 5/1 (Aust) tank of A Squadron, 1 Armoured Regiment, leads a convoy of military trucks along Route 2 at the commencement of Phase 2 of Operation Bondi I. The task set for the operation,
