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PHUOC TUY PROVINCE, SOUTH VIETNAM. JUNE 1970. OPERATION CUNG CHUNG (TOGETHERNESS) IS THE LARGEST JOINT AUSTRALIAN-SOUTH VIETNAMESE OFFENSIVE YET LAUNCHED. VIETNAMESE REGIONAL FORCE SOLDIERS ARE MOVED INTO AN AMBUSH POSITION BY AUSTRALIAN ARMOURED PERSONNEL CARRIERS (APCS) OF B SQUADRON, 3RD CAVALRY REGIMENT. THE DRIVER OF THE FIRST APC, CALL SIGN 32A AND NICKNAMED BEWILDERED, IS TROOPER KEN BENNETT, 22, FROM HENLEY BEACH, SOUTH AUSTRALIA (WEARING HELMET), AND IT IS COMMANDED BY CORPORAL KENNY WALLACE, 19, FROM CAMP HILL, BRISBANE (BEHIND THE MACHINE-GUN).
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. June 1970. Operation Cung Chung (Togetherness) is the largest joint Australian-South Vietnamese offensive yet launched. Vietnamese regional force soldiers are moved
South Vietnam. c. 19 June 1970. Two soldiers from Victoria practice firing a 90mm recoiless anti tank weapon at Fire Support Base Tess, the operational base for 2RAR /NZ (ANZAC) (The ANZAC Battalion c
South Vietnam. June 1970. Corporal David Rees of Nundah, Qld, directs another armoured personnel carrier (APC) back to tow his APC out of a ditch. The driver of the APC, with call sign 86B, and nickna
South Vietnam. 1970-01. Troop Sergeant (Sgt), Alan Buckingham of Gympie, Qld, gives the go (thumbs up) sign to 3 Troop of B Squadron, 3rd Cavalry Regiment, as it prepares to move from its night positi
South Vietnam. 1970-01. A resupply on Operation Matilda, the Army's largest armoured operation since World War 2. Sergeant (Sgt) Alan Buckingham of Gympie, Qld, throws rations to the driver of the arm
An armoured personnel carrier (APC) nicknamed Cara-Lyn, call sign 31A, from Matilda Force advances rapidly through open country. Forty four armoured vehicles, comprising Centurion tanks, APCs, plus lo
