Photos Aussies and Kiwi's in Vietnam

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Phuoc Tuy Province. October 1966. Firing a captured Chicom Type 56 Light Machine Gun during an evaluation test is Private Ken Tronc. The weapon was captured by D Company, 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), during the Battle of Long Tan.

 

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Australian centurion in Vietnam with a improvised mine roller

 

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Ninh Thuan Province. c 1970. Callsign Magpie. An English Electric Canberra B.20 bomber of No. 2 Squadron RAAF at Phan Rang Air Base.

 

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Members of No 22 Patrol, F Troop, 2nd Squadron, Australian Special Air Service Regiment have a final smoko cigarette while preparing to move out on patrol armed with L1A1 SLR's and wearing ERDL camouflage.

From left to right they are Sgt Frank Cashmore, Patrol Commander Sgt Danny Wright, Trooper Felix Richards, Trooper Ben Bennett, Trooper Don Barnby and Trooper Jock Tiernam.

Photo taken at Nui Dat, SAS Hill, South Vietnam, 1971

 

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Phuoc Tuy Province. 11 December 1969. During Operation Atherton, three soldiers of 1st Platoon, A Company, 8th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (8RAR), lie in an ambush position as the platoon stops in preparation for the night.

 

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Phuoc Tuy Province. January 1971. A forward scout from A Company, 2RAR/NZ (ANZAC), slowly makes his way through thick mud after disembarking from a vessel in the Rung Sat Special Zone.

 

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6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment disembark from an American Chinook, South Vietnam, 1966

 

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Phuoc Tuy Province. 11 December 1969. Private Asmus of A Company, 8th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (8RAR), moves cautiously through the jungle undergrowth during During Operation Atherton.

 

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Trooper Neville Taylor of No 26 Patrol, F Troop, 2nd Squadron, Australian Special Air Service Regiment (SASR), waits with a modified M60 in the scrub for the helicopter pickup at the end of a patrol, 1971

 

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The Australians deployed Centurion tanks to Vietnam between February 1968 and August 1971, with a maximum of 18 plus support vehicles. The tank on the left shows damage to one of its track guards a common experience during moves through the thick jungle.

 

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Phuoc Tuy Province. September 1968. Soldiers from 4RAR/NZ (ANZAC) check calculations on a map before moving out on Operation Innamincka

 

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January 1970. Soldiers from 6RAR/NZ (ANZAC) inspect a Chinese Type 56 SKS semi-automatic rifle captured after a contact with the VC during Operation Matilda in Phuoc Tuy Province

 

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Bien Hoa Province. 22 January 1969. A soldier of 9th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (9RAR), aims his rifle down a VC underground bunker and tunnel system found during Operation Goodwood

 

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HMAS Sydney (III) off Vung Tau, Vietnam, 1968

 

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Phuoc Tuy Province. 11 December 1969. During Operation Atherton, three soldiers of 1st Platoon, A Company, 8th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (8RAR), lie in an ambush position as the platoon stops in preparation for the night.
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8RAR did a lot of ambushing, you can chase the VC through the scrub, or you can meet them on their way into the villages at a time of your choosing. They did very well.

 

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Quang Nam Province. 25 April 1969. Soldiers of the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV) attend the ANZAC Day dawn service at Da Nang.

 

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The “Quiet Tigers” New Zealand SAS in Vietnam, 1968

 

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Phuoc Tuy Province. 2 September 1966. Tired and muddy, soldiers of B Company, 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), arrive back at Nui Dat after taking part in Operation Darlinghurst.

 

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An Australian Special Air Service Regiment (SASR) patrol from 2nd Squadron examine the wreckage of a Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopter of 9 Squadron RAAF that was shot down on the 7th of June 1971 while on an ammunition re-supply mission during Operation Overlord, June 1971, Vietnam War.

The helicopter's captain, Flight Lieutenant Everitt Murray Lance, and the gunner, Corporal David John Dubber, were killed in the crash, while two other crewmen escaped with relatively minor injuries.

Trooper William Egidio (Bill) Robb (left), patrol medic, is carrying an M16 rifle fitted with an XM-148 40 mm grenade launcher and optical sight. On the right is Trooper James Winston (Jim) Briggs, patrol signaller, and in the background is Sergeant David Willem Scheele, second-in-command of the patrol. The 11-man patrol searched the dense jungle area of Operation Overlord for six days to find the crash and rescued the two surviving crewmembers but had no contacts with the enemy.

 

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March 1968. A newly arrived 52 ton Centurion tank of C Squadron, 1st Armoured Regiment (1AR), RAAC, being driven off a landing craft on the outskirts of Baria, the capital of Phuoc Tuy Province.