The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 wrapped with ripped tarpaulin. Also visible, are blocks of TNT and homemade mines.
SOUTH VIETNAM. 1967. A SELECTION OF MINES USED BY VIET CONG (VC) AND THE NORTH VIETNAMESE ARMY (NVA). LEFT TO RIGHT: TWO VC ANTI-PERSONNEL (CLAYMORE) MINES; VC 'CAN' AND 'PIPE' DEVICES' TWO BANGALORE
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
SOUTH VIETNAM. 1967. A SELECTION OF MINES USED BY UNITED STATES (US) FORCES, THE VIET CONG (VC) AND THE NORTH VIETNAMESE ARMY (NVA). LEFT TO RIGHT: VC BANGALORE TORPEDOES; VC 'PIPE' AND 'CAN' DEVICES,
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 an
SOUTH VIETNAM. 1967. A VARIETY OF EXPLOSIVE DEVICES USED BY THE UNITED STATES (US) FORCES, THE VIET CONG (VC) AND THE NORTH VIETNAMESE ARMY (NVA). LEFT TO RIGHT: AN ANTI-TANK MINE; DETONATING SWITCHES
A Viet Cong explosive device that has been discovered placed in a drainage culvert. The device consists of a block of TNT with an electrically fired detonator that can be command detonated via the red
