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Section Commander, Corporal Joe Danyluk of Port Kembla, NSW (right), and Aboriginal serviceman 1201998 Lance Corporal Richard Herbert 'Dick' Bligh of Windsor, Qld, 'take five' before commencing a search of a Viet Cong bunker system in the Long Hai mountains during Operation Hamersley. Both soldiers are from B Company of 8th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (8RAR) which, together with other 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) units, fought an estimated company of hard-core Viet Cong (VC) entrenched in the mountains. The area was pounded by air strikes including a raid by giant B52 bomber aircraft, naval bombardment from HMAS Vendetta and artillery fire. Twenty-nine bodies of dead VC have been found.
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. 18 February 1970. Section Commander, Corporal Joe Danyluk of Port Kembla, NSW, carrying a mortar gun calls a halt during a sweep through bombed out jungle after a bl
PHUOC TUY PROVINCE, SOUTH VIETNAM. 18 FEBRUARY 1970. PRIVATE LES COOGINS, 26, OF TOOWOOMBA, QLD, MOVES WARILY THROUGH THE JUNGLE NEAR A VIET CONG (VC) BUNKER SYSTEM IN SOUTHERN PHUOC TUY PROVINCE DURI
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. 18 February 1970. Sapper (Spr) Paul Scott of Beverley Hills, NSW, gives his M16 automatic rifle a thorough cleaning before B Company of 8th Battalion, The Royal Aust
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. 18 February 1970. Private (Pte) Darrell Hook of Redcliffe, Qld, passes out a Mosin-Nagant Carbine rifle from enemy weapons cache in a cave in the Long Hai mountains
PHUOC TUY PROVINCE, SOUTH VIETNAM. C. 9 MARCH 1970. THE RESULT OF A SWEEP THROUGH THE RUGGED LONG HAI MOUNTAINS DURING OPERATION HAMERSLEY. THE ENEMY WEAPONS WERE FOUND BY 8TH BATTALION, THE ROYAL AUS
Australian soldiers pause on a rock ledge during their sweep of a section of the Long Hai mountains to survey the ground below during Operation Hammersley. The area was the scene of a bitter battle be
