The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
South Vietnam. July 1967. Troops from B Company, 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR), unload rations and supplies from a RAAF Iroquois helicopter in a jungle clearing during Operation Coorparoo. The landing pad took several hours to construct. Many pounds of high explosives had to be used, some of which was lowered from another Iroquois. Shattered stumps in the foreground are all that remain of two tall trees which had to be removed.
Vietnam. 1967-07. Troops from B Company, the 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR), unload rations and supplies from a RAAF Iroquois helicopter in a jungle clearing during Operation Coop
Vietnam. 1967-07. Because of the thick undergrowth and tall trees, helicopters were unable to land near B Company, the 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR), during Operation Cooparoo. T
Vietnam. 1967-07. Because of the thick undergrowth and tall trees, helicopters were unable to land near B Company, the 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR), during Operation Cooparoo. T
Nui Dat, Vietnam. 1967-07. Because of thick jungle and lack of suitable landing pad, troops from B Company, 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR), had to carry five days' rations and mak
Vietnam. 1967-11. Members of 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR), shelter from the rotor downdraft of a No. 9 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), Iroquois helicopter before bo
Vietnam. 1967-11. Major Graham Chapman of Puckapunyal, Vic (right), waits with his troops from 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR), during Operation Santa Fe, for a lift in an Iroquois
