The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A deactivated Viet Cong explosive device showing the homemade battery pack and wiring (left) and the pressure plate (right). The name 'Millar, 1 Trp' has been written in chalk on the pressure plate and could possibly refer to 1411306 Michael Millar who served with the 1st Field Squadron, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE) from November 1967 to November 1968.
An example of a recovered shaped charge mine that had been placed by Viet Cong fighters and excavated by Sappers from the Royal Australian Engineers. The homemade wooden pressure contact plate (left)
An example of a booby trapped shaped charge mine that has been placed by Viet Cong fighters and excavated by Sappers from the Royal Australian Engineers. The homemade pressure contact plate (centre) i
A display board showing a range of captured Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army explosive devices. Included, is a range circular shaped command and trip detonated Chinese Communist (Chicom) Dh10 direc
An assortment of deactivated Viet Cong explosive devices including sections of Bangalore torpedoes (top left). One of the Bangalore devices utilises a length of bamboo with attached blocks of TNT wrap
An electrically operated explosive device that was buried in a road by Viet Cong fighters and recovered by Australian sappers from the 1st Field Squadron, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE). The three c
Warrant Officer (WO) Rodney Amos RAAF, an Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) technician with the Weapons Intelligence Team (WIT), shows a captured basic pressure plate from an Improvised Explosive Devi