The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. July 1970. Sapper Bruce Staples of Church Point, NSW, a member of the 1st Field Squadron, Royal Australian Engineers, fixes the outboard motor of an aluminium assault craft. Soldiers from the Assault Pioneer Platoon, 2RAR /NZ (ANZAC) (The ANZAC Battalion comprising 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment and a component from the 1st Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment), and 1st Field Squadron, have been patrolling the miles of waterways and mangrove swamps which form the western coast. They have been checking fishing boats and the identity cards of the Vietnamese. The enemy is known to use these miles of mangrove swamps as a hideout and by night often moves supplies by sampan.
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. July 1970. Armed with an M16 rifle and searching a Vietnamese sampan for possible enemy supplies, is Corporal Joe Braumberger of Townsville, Qld, a member of 2RAR /N
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. July 1970. Three members of 2RAR /NZ (ANZAC) (The ANZAC Battalion comprising 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment and a component from the 1st Battalion, Roy
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. July 1970. Handling the tiller on an aluminium assault craft is Corporal Bill Cummings of Elizabeth Bay, SA, a member of the 1st Field Squadron, Royal Australian Eng
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. July 1970. Private Colin McDonald of Mackay, Qld, a member of 2RAR /NZ (ANZAC) (The ANZAC Battalion comprising 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment and a com
SOUTH VIETNAM. SAPPER DARRYL LAVIS OF SEMAPHORE PARK, SA (LEFT), AND SAPPER EDWARD PODLICH OF WINDSOR, BRISBANE, QLD, SIT AT THE TILLER OF AN ASSAULT RAFT. BOTH MEMBERS OF THE 1ST FIELD SQUADRON, ROYA
Members of A Company, 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), leave an assault craft to search through mangrove swamps, after having been ferried by boat across a deep alligator infested
