The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR), on an operation near Long Tan, six miles east of the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) base at Nui Dat. Helping him with the charge is Spr Ian Pitt of Beaufort, Vic. Both are engineers of 2 Troop, 1st Field Squadron.
South Vietnam. June 1970. A 'Chicom' grenade was among Viet Cong (VC) equipment found by soldiers of the 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR), in a bunker system near Long Tan, six mile
South Vietnam. June 1970. Examining Viet Cong (VC) equipment found in a bunker system are, left to right: Private (Pte) Reg Castles of Launceston, Tas; Pte Jim Angely of Bankstown, NSW; Pte Chris Clow
South Vietnam. June 1970. 5716285 Lance Corporal Alan Henry Leivers of Melville, WA (left), and of A Company, 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR), and 44766 Lance Corporal Kenneth Mont
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) Rober
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
South Vietnam. June 1970. Gunner Kerry Taheny of Edithburgh, SA, of the 106th Field Battery, burns a hole through the bamboo to make the stem of a smoker's pipe. He is attached to A Company of 7th Bat
