The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
VIETNAM. 1965. PHOTOGRAPH FROM A CHINESE PAMPHLET SHOWING A WOMAN, AN OLD MAN AND A YOUTH, VIET CONG SYMPATHISERS, PREPARING A PANJI PIT (SHARPENED BAMBOO STICKS) OUTSIDE THEIR VILLAGE. WHEN COMPLETED THE PIT WOULD BE CAMOUFLAGED TO RESEMBLE PART OF A TRACK. (FORMERLY 200264)
Vietnam. c. 1962. A typical native village defence system of bamboo palisade, showing a moat and sharpened bamboo (called panji stakes). This system was used when barbed wire was in short supply or un
VIETNAM, 1965. AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A CHINESE PAMPHLET SHOWING A GROUP OF VIET CONG PERSONNEL STUDYING A MODEL OF A SOUTH VIETNAMESE TERRITORIAL FORCE MUD FORT DURING PLANNING FOR AN ATTACK. (FORMERLY
This diorama portrays one type of 'cordon and search' operation conducted by Australians in South Vietnamese villages. Also shown is a form of Viet Cong tunnel system often encountered by Australians.
VIETNAM. COPY OF A PAINTING FROM A 1965 CHINESE PAMPHLET DEPICTING A VIET CONG HEROINE SHOOTING A LOCAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL IN HIS BED FOR BEING TREACHEROUS TO THE CAUSE. (PAINTING BY PENG PIN.) (FORM
As an aid to the instruction of Infantry Corps trainees at the Australian Army's Infantry Centre, replicas of Viet Cong defensive weapons are set up on or in the ground. Consisting of sharpened stakes
VIETNAM. 1965. A PHOTOGRAPH FROM A CHINESE PAMPHLET SHOWING SOME MEMBERS OF THE FORCE WHICH CALLED THEMSELVES THE LIBERATION ARMY. THIS FORCE WAS REFERRED TO IN AUSTRALIAN DOCTRINE AS VIET CONG REGION
