Photos Aussies and Kiwi's in Vietnam

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Vietnam War. Nui Dat, Phuoc Tuy Province. 1971. Australian Army Sergeant Danny Wright, Patrol Commander of No. 22 Patrol, 'F' Troop, 2nd Squadron, SASR (Special Air Service Regiment), has a long drink of champagne to celebrate his last patrol. Looking on are Corporal 'Curley' Clarke (left) and Trooper Felix Richards (right). Photo by Trooper Donald Barnby. [AWM P00966.052]

 

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Vietnam. 1966-01. Drawing water from a well in the Ho Bo area during Operation Crimp, Private Peter Arnold (right), 20, of Hillcrest, Adelaide, SA, fills the containers of some of his waiting mates. Used only for washing purposes, the well water helped relieve the job of water carrying from the rear echelon.

Source: www.awm.gov.au/collection/C309513

 

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Phuoc Tuy Province. 1968. Australian Army Centurion Mk V/1 of the 1st Armoured Regiment at Fire Support Base Lion

 

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Corporal Thomas Henry (Tom or "Buddy") Lea, 10 Platoon, D Company, 6 RAR, of Rockhampton, Qld, moves cautiously into a Viet Cong village with his Owen gun at the ready during the first mission by the 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), Operation Enoggera.

18th September, 2014.
THOMAS Henry 'Buddy' Lea was farewelled "exactly how he would have wanted yesterday" - in a big room filled with music, laughter and those he loved.
Almost 1000 mourners packed Hervey Bay's Baptist Church on Thursday to honour the Vietnam veteran, who passed away last weekend.
An opening joke from his son Barry, who told those struggling to find a seat that in the words of his indigenous father - "it's not like the laundry, you can mix the whites and colours" helped lighten the heaviness of what was to come.
As an honour guard marched his flag-draped coffin through the crowd, people stood to pay their final respects to the war hero they knew as "Buddy".

https://www.gladstoneobserver.com.au/news/farewell-to-a-hero-and-friend/2392374/#/0

 

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Horseshoe, South Vietnam. January 1971. At the Horseshoe, 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment's (7RAR), pipe band during a practice session. 7RAR is due to go home and was practising for the event. Left to right: Pipe-Major (Corporal) Bob Cameron of Blacktown, NSW; Private (Pte) Kevin Gorham of Barmedman, NSW; Pte Bruce Mayo of Moonee Ponds, Vic, and 3795982 Pte Fulvio V. Zanier of Essendon, Vic.

Source: www.awm.gov.au/collection/C324282

 

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QUANG TRI, SOUTH VIETNAM. 1965. WARRANT OFFICER 2 K.A. "DASHER" WHEATLEY (LEFT) AND WO2 L.J. DOWSETT WITH MONTAGNARD TRIBESMEN. WO2 R. J. SWANTON AND CAPTAIN ALLAN (A. S.) HINDS, VISITING AUSTRALIAN PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER, ARE IN THE BACKGROUND. ON 1965-11-13 WHEATLEY AND SWANTON WERE ON PATROL WITH VIETNAMESE IRREGULARS OPERATING FROM THE TRA BONG SPECIAL FORCES OUTPOST WHEN SWANTON WAS WOUNDED IN THE CHEST, AND ALTHOUGH THE MEDICAL ASSISTANT TOLD WHEATLEY THAT SWANTON WAS DYING HE REFUSED TO LEAVE HIM. INSTEAD WHEATLEY HALF DRAGGED, HALF CARRIED SWANTON, UNDER HEAVY ENEMY FIRE FROM THE PADDY FIELD TO A WOODED AREA ABOUT 200 METRES AWAY. WHEATLEY WAS AGAIN URGED TO LEAVE SWANTON, HE REFUSED. HE WAS LAST SEEN ALIVE WITH A GRENADE IN EACH HAND AWAITING THE ENCIRCLING VIET CONG. FOR HIS ACTION WHEATLEY WAS POSTHUMOUSLY AWARDED THE VICTORIA CROSS. THIS WAS THE FIRST VICTORIA CROSS TO BE AWARDED IN THE VIETNAM WAR.
Original text and photographs sourced by: www.awm.gov.au/collection/C78666.

 

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Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. May 1970. The Special Air Services (SAS) men return to the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) base at Nui Dat. Leading from the chopper (helicopter) is patrol commander Sergeant John O'Keefe of Balga, WA.

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C326988?image=1

 

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Bien Hoa, Vietnam. 1965-06. Corporal Jeff Taylor of Scarborough, WA, serving with the 1st Australian Logistic Support Company, watches while Private First Class (Pfc) Tom Hughes, US Army, of Michigan, USA, explains the operation of the US Armalite rifle. PFC Hughes is a member of the 173rd US Airborne Brigade, the only unit in Vietnam equipped with the Armalite rifle.

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C307975

 

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Adjusting his black beret and wearing Ray Ban sun glasses, is crew commander, 39113 Corporal Ian Donald Mathieson, A Squadron, 3rd Cavalry Regiment, Royal Australian Armoured Corps, (RAAC) atop his M113A1 Armoured Personnel Carrier which has the call sign two nine Juliette (29J). The machine gun in the foreground is a .30 calibre L3A4 Browning medium machine gun on a flexible mount.

Source: www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1223220

 

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Vietnam. 1966-01-13. Kiwis lent support to Australian troops who uncovered a huge Viet Cong tunnel complex during Operation Crimp in the Ho Bo Woods north-west of Saigon. Lance Bombardier (L Bdr) David Carswell of the New Zealand battery, set up his radio equipment with the Australians to maintain contact with the Kiwi gunners providing support fire. A Viet Cong tunnel entrance can be seen in the foreground. L Bdr Carswell is from Waiouru, NZ.

Source: www.awm.gov.au/collection/C309519

 

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VIETNAM. 1967-10. A BUNKER FOUND IN AN ABANDONED VIET CONG CAMP IS EXAMINED BY PRIVATE LLOYD VENZ OF BEAUDESERT, QLD, AND 7TH BATTALION, THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN REGIMENT (7RAR), DURING OPERATION KENMORE IN PHUOC TUY PROVINCE.

Original description and photograph sourced by: www.awm.gov.au/collection/C36921

 

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Vietnam War. Nui Dat. September 1966. Gunners from 101 Field Battery, Royal Australian Artillery (RAA), conduct a fire mission in support of Australian troops on an operation in Phuc Tuy Province. They are firing the Italian-made OTO Melara Mod 56 105mm L5 pack howitzer. Photo by Tim Page. [AWM P05766.001]

 

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Australian and Vietnamese forces combine in Operation Phoi Hop (Co-operation) in Phuoc Tuy Province, as members of A Company, 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR), join local Popular Forces to sweep through jungle in search of Viet Cong bunkers. Seated on an armoured personnel carrier (APC) of A Squadron, 3 Cavalry Regiment, are Corporal Merv Ellis (wearing a beret) of Newcastle, NSW, and behind him (wearing a bush hat) is Warrant Officer Graham Millington of Puckapunyal, Vic, a training team soldier with the Popular Forces.
Source: www.awm.gov.au/collection/C37065

 

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Phuoc Tuy Province. November 1967. "Justin", one of two tracker dogs with 7RAR, has a refreshing cup of water poured over his muzzle by his handler, Private Tom Blackhurst.

April 1970. Troops from Delta Company, 6RAR/NZ (ANZAC) board a US Army CH-47 Chinook to be lifted out to Operation Townsville, a reconnaissance in force operation in north-east Phuoc Tuy Province.

 

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Phuoc Tuy Province. 21 August 1968. Kiwi diggers of 4RAR/NZ (ANZAC) on patrol.

 

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Vietnam War. Phuoc Tuy Province. 1969. Hard Yakka. Australian soldiers dig out a Centurion Mk V/1 tank with the
call sign 92C (Nine Two Charlie) of B Squadron, 1st Armoured Regiment (1AR), Royal Australian Armoured Corps (RAAC), which became bogged in the Long Hai Hills. Photo by Robert Gardiner [AWM P01381.024] and [AWM P01381.025]

 

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1 July 1967. Stand To. With an "enemy" attack imminent, Corporal Les Lindsay is alert and ready with his F1 submachine gun. A soldier of 8th Battalion, Royal Australian regiment (8RAR), Cpl Lindsay is taking part in exercise Noisy Pitta in the Army's Shoalwater Bay Military Training Area north of Rockhampton, Qld. About 1500 troops are taking part in Noisy Pitta, which is aimed at final training of 8RAR before they depart for service in Malaysia later this year. Photo by Richard William Crothers. [AWM CRO/67/0337/NC]

 

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Vietnam War. November 1971. Warrant Officer Class 1 (WO1) Ned Larsson leads some of his students through the wire perimeter from Dong Tam, one of two centres in the Mekong Delta, where Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV) members are training Popular Force soldiers in night operation techniques. The soldiers spend two weeks under instruction from the six man team at the centre before returning to their own province to pass on what they have learnt. Photo by Philip John Errington. [AWM PJE/71/0554/VN]

 

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WACKY VIETNAM HISTORY
Story told to Bob Meehan by Noel Hains
Way back in 1968-69, Victor Company, New Zealand infantry were attach to 4 RAR. While on operations... near the Courtney Rubber Plantation in the north of Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, a Forward scout saw something that didn’t look right in the thick scrub in front of him……. A section of their fineness moved forward to discover an old French Citroën car. As the photos show they dragged it clear of the undergrowth, repaired and painted it…………they were instructed to get rid of it as it was not military issued………not to be out-done by the authorities, some red and white paint mixed together, they painted it PINK and then donated it to Sister Pam Terry (Nurse) of the RNZNC to be used by them to drive around Vung Tau…………This was then passed on to each of the Aussie and Kiwi nurses over that following years………..
NOTE!!! The bullet holes in the door and back window and the number plate...........

 

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Bob's a faceyspace friend of mine, I reckon I've heard that story before, but not from him.