The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Nui Dat, South Vietnam. August 1970. Sergeant (Sgt) Frank Johnson of Mornington, Vic (right), hands a letter to Lance Corporal Anthony Goodey of Claremont, Tas, the medic for the sergeant's platoon, the Defence and Employment Platoon at Headquarters 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF). The letter was one of six which Australian girls wrote to Sgt Johnson after his picture Jon/70/0368/vn appeared in newspapers with a python snake which his platoon captured. The girls requested pen-friends, and Sgt Johnson handed the letters out to the soldiers in his platoon for reply.
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. June 1970. Sergeant Frank Johnson of Mornington, Vic, of the Defence and Employment Platoon of Headquarters, 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) base at Nui Dat, holds
Soldiers of the Defence and Employment Platoon of Headquarters, 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) base at Nui Dat, watch a fourteen foot python snake which slithered into their operational field base i
