The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
235390 Lieutenant Graham John Kells of Belrose, NSW (left), commander of 5 Platoon, B Company, 3 Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), confers with his platoon's bushman scout during Operation Briar Patch. The scout was a former Viet Cong who had rallied to the government of South Vietnam under the Chieu Hoi program. Termed 'Kit Carson scouts' by the US Army, bushman scouts often prove invaluable on operations for their knowledge of local terrain, enemy tactics and signs marking the location of mines and weapons caches.
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. February 1971. Seven years have passed since this elderly Vietnamese woman last saw her only daughter. At the age of seventeen, her daughter ran off to join the Viet
Green cotton shield-shaped badge hand embroidered in satin and stem stiches. The badge is edged in black and bears a diagonal yellow band running from top right to bottom left, superimposed with a red
