The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Members of 5 Platoon, B Company, 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR), just north of the village of Lang Phuoc Hai, beside Route 44 leading to Dat Do. United States Army Iroquois helicopters are landing to take them back to Nui Dat after completion of Operation Ulmarra, the cordon-and-search by 7RAR of the coastal village of Lang Phuoc Hai. Operation Ulmarra was conducted by 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR) and 7RAR with support elements. Left to right: Private (Pte) Peter Capp (kneeling); Pte Bob Fennell (leaning over, facing camera, with an ammunition belt for an M60 machine gun slung over his shoulder); Corporal Bob D'Arcy (partly obscured behind Fennell); Pte Neal Hasted (centre, front); Pte Ian Jury (partly obscured, centre, rear, holding rifle); Pte Colin Barnett (front, right, M60 ammunition belt on back, back of head to camera); Lance Corporal Stan Whitford (partly obscured behind Barnett); the helicopter marshal at right is Pte John Raymond Gould, 7RAR. The United States Army Iroquois UH-1D helicopter was operated by 2 Platoon, 162nd Assault Helicopter Company, 11th Combat Aviation Battalion. (Having achieved almost the status of an icon, this image was chosen for, and is etched on, the Australian Vietnam Forces National Memorial on Anzac Parade, Canberra, ACT, dedicated in October 1992) (A colour version of this image held as EKN/67/0130/VN and another black and white image, taken from another angle, at COL/67/0785/VN)
Members of 5 Platoon, B Company, 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR), just north of the village of Lang Phuoc Hai, beside Route 44 leading to Dat Do. United States Army Iroquois helico
Members of 5 Platoon, B Company, 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR), just north of Phuoc Hai, beside the road leading to Dat Do. United States Iroquois helicopters have just landed to
Troops of A Company, 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR), wait in cactus country near the fishing village of Phuoc Hai for a helicopter back to the 1st Australian Task Force base at Nu
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. 26 August 1967. Troops of A Company, 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR) wait near the village of Phuoc Hai for a US Army Iroquois helicopter to take
Rations and supplies are unloaded from a UH-B1 Iroquois helicopter, Serial No. A21021, of No. 9 Squadron RAAF, by troops of 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR), near the village of Lo
Troops from 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR) sit and relax on the beach in their lunch break while their comrades watch for any Viet Cong (VC) activity. They had just completed sear
