The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Xa Long Phuoc, Phuoc Tuy Province, Vietnam. c. June 1966. A M113 armoured personnel carrier (APC) moves along the perimeter of the village of Xa Long Phuoc where 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), were conducting a search and destroy operation. Note the number on the APC is 21A. The people had been moved out earlier from the former Viet Cong dominated village. Operation Enoggera was carried out between 21 June to 5 July with large quantities of rice and medical supplies found and more than twenty tunnel complexes destroyed. (Donor W. Cox)
Xa Long Phuoc, Phuoc Tuy Province, Vietnam. c. June 1966. A small building, probably a temple, stands in the village of Xa Long Phuoc where 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), were co
Xa Long Phuoc, Phuoc Tuy Province, Vietnam. c. June 1966. A large cache of rice in bags found in the village of Xa Long Phuoc where 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), were conducting
Phuoc Tuy Province, Vietnam. c. June 1966. Soldiers of 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), rest during Operation Enoggera, a search and destroy operation in the supposedly empty villa
Phuoc Tuy Province, Vietnam. c. June 1966. Soldiers of 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), on board International MkIII GS cargo trucks lined up ready to move out of the task force ba
Xa Long Tan, Vietnam. July 1966. A soldier from 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR) displays a rice bandoleer the enemy buried in the ground and found during a search and destroy missi
Xa Long Tan, Vietnam. July 1966. Soldiers of the 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR) used Armoured Personnel Carriers to move around the area in the search and destroy mission code-nam
