P02629.014 Accession Number: P02629.014

Description

Phuoc Tuy Province, Vietnam. 17 February 1967. Smoke rising from the air strike during Operation Bribie. Seven members ofthe 6th Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment 6RAR were killed and twenty six were wounded during the operation. During the battle one of the APCs was destroyed by three direct hits from enemy 75mm recoilless rifle (RCL) fire, killing the driver and wounding the commander. All removable equipment was retrived from the vehicle under fire, however the RCL rounds had jammed the machine-guns and radio beyond retrieval. The vehicle was subsequently torched by placing grenades on the machine-guns, rupturing the fuel line and detonated with two White Phosphorous grenades. After leaving the burned-out wreckage overnight, the Australians returned to find `Du Me Uc Dai Loi' (roughly translated to `Australians get stuffed') painted on the APC in blood. (Donor P. McNamee)

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Conflicts

• Vietnam, 1962-1975