The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. 18 February 1970. A Viet Cong (VC) bunker is prepared for demolition in the Long Hai mountains during Operation Hammersley. Laying the charges are Sapper (Spr) Robert Smith of Bexley, NSW (left) and Spr Brad Hannaford of Grovelly, Qld (standing in the entrance), both members of the 1st Field Regiment, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE). The area where the bunkers were found had been the scene of a clash between the Australians and VC a few days earlier.
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
Climbing mountains in a flak jacket and helmet is hot work for Private John Sandry of Richmond, NSW. His unit, C Company of 8th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (8RAR), was sweeping through a
Flashlight in hand, Sapper (Spr) Trevor Hughes of Beenleigh, Qld, emerges from the gloom of a cave in the Long Hai mountains during Operation Hammersley. The cave held a cache of rocket propelled gren
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
Australian troops prepare to sweep through thick scrub in the Long Hai mountains in South Vietnam during Operation Hammersley. The men, of 8th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (8RAR), had clas
South Vietnam. June 1970. Sapper (Spr) Ralph Schaefer of Wodonga, Vic, uses a Viet Cong (VC) bamboo ladder to take a demolition charge down into a VC well at a bunker system found by soldiers of 7th B
