The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Unidentified men of 10 Platoon (10 Pl), D Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR) (foreground), watch as other men rush in to unload supplies from a Bristol Sycamore helicopter. This platoon has been chasing after a group of Communist terrorists for the last 12 days and in order to continue the chase, re-supply of fresh men and food was urgently needed. Several Sycamore light helicopters, carrying two men and some supplies each trip, did the job. The small landing zone (LZ), which measured 40 yards by 30 yards was hacked out of the jungle by men of 10 Pl and is 3600 feet above sea level in the mountains behind Sungei Siput. It took only 15 seconds to get the men and supplies out of the helicopter before it returned to pick up another load at a point seven miles away.
Two unidentified men from 10 Platoon, D Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), protectively patrol their temporary camp, set up next to a landing zone (LZ) hacked out of the jun
Viewed through the clear nose of a RAF Bristol 171 Sycamore helicopter is a small landing zone (LZ) where it will land to deliver men and supplies to 10 Platoon (10 Pl), D Company, 2nd Battalion, The
Unidentified men of 10 Platoon (10 Pl), D Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), anxiously watch a RAF Bristol 171 Sycamore helicopter make its descent onto a small jungle landi
A RAF Bristol Sycamore light helicopter takes off, as it heads towards a small landing zone (LZ), seven miles away and 3600 feet above sea level in the mountains behind Sungei Siput. It is carrying r
Informal portrait of 1/3181 Private (Pte) Ron Siganto, of Chermside, Qld, 10 Platoon (10 Pl), D Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), as he listens intently for the sounds of a
Private Doug Sawyer, of Willston Heights, Qld, 10 Platoon (10 Pl), D Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), sits in the shadow of a RAF Bristol 171 Sycamore helicopter, resting
