The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
During Operation Hammer, soldiers of 6 Platoon, B Company, 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR) commanded by 29466 Major Rein Eelmaa Harring and supported by Centurion tanks of No 4 Troop, B Squadron, 1st Armoured Regiment (1AR) RAAC, sweep towards the edge of a rubber plantation at Duc Trung, five miles north of the 1st Australian task force (1ATF) base at Nui Dat. The Australians inflicted heavy casualties on a strong force of North Vietnamese army (NVA) soldiers. Identified from the APC are: 2790338 Private (Pte) Raymond William (Ray) Frauenfelder (with radio); 5715984 Pte Peter Giles Wardrope; 217419 Corporal (Cpl) Peter Pezet, Section Commander; 1733741 2nd Lieutenant Robert Allen (Bob) Hutchison, Platoon Commander; 4720117 Pte Gregory Charles 'Spike' Dwiar; 44537 Pte William (Bill) Errington; two unidentified; 1201639 Pte Douglas George Mckellar; 217931 Pte Michael Martin (Mick) Cox; unidentified.
Soldiers near the gates of the abandoned village in north eastern Phuoc Tuy Province, examine the bodies of eleven dead Viet Cong (VC) killed in a night ambush. The ambush was set with armoured person
BINH BA, SOUTH VIETNAM. 1969-06. COMMANDER OF AN ARMOURED PERSONNEL CARRIER (APC) OF B SQUADRON, 3RD CAVALRY REGIMENT, KEEPS A SHARP LOOK OUT INTO A BANANA PLANTATION ON THE ROADSIDE NEAR BINH BA. AUS
May Tao, South Vietnam. A 52 ton Centurion tank of B Squadron, 1st Armoured Regiment (1AR) RAAC was brought up to clear this large tree from the line of fire of artillery during the setting up of Fir
Three bare-chested soldiers from the 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), examine captured Viet Cong (VC) weapons near Thua Tich, fifteen miles north east of the 1st Australian Task Fo
South Vietnam. 1969-09. Three Australian advisers assist a Vietnamese soldier conduct a security check on a man in the village outside a building during a combined Australian-Vietnamese operation. Lef
Three members of the 1st Australian Task Force Defence and Employment Platoon examining captured Viet Cong (VC) weapons after a successful night ambush near the abandoned village. Left to right: 21852
