Photos Aussies and Kiwi's in Vietnam

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Vietnam. 1967-11. Private John Grelck of Northbridge, NSW, holding all that is left of an old car tire after the VC had made a Ho Chi Minh sandal from it. It was found when 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR), searched a VC jungle village during Operation Santa Fe. The village was later destroyed.
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Original description and photo sourced by www.awm.gov.au/collection/C314776

 

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An Nhut, South Vietnam. 1969-08. Corporal (Cpl) Jim Mottram of Warradale, SA, a medical assistant with the 1st Australian Civil Affairs Unit, dresses a Vietnamese boy's leg at a village. Cpl Mottram is one of a team which regularly visits the villages of the Phuoc Tuy Province.
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Original description and photo sourced by www.awm.gov.au/collection/C318986

 

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End of day smoke for Sapper Barry Hartford of Broken Hill, NSW, as he relaxes against a tree after an arduous tunnel search during Operation Enoggera after the 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), occupied a VC village.
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Original description and photo sourced by www.awm.gov.au/collection/C311170

 

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Today we pause to remember the life and service of 218006 Corporal Henry Edward "Ted" Suttor, who was killed in action whilst serving in South Vietnam on the 16th of November 1969. He was also known as "Eyes" to his brothers in arms.
Ted volunteered to serve in the ARA in 1967 and was posted to 5RAR. He deployed with the Battalion to South Vietnam in 1969. On the morning of the 16th of November, his platoon was advancing on a bunker system at 0730 when his section made contact with the enemy.
Ted was metres from the forward bunker when he called out he was going to attempt to grenade the bunker. As he raised himself to throw the grenade, he was struck by two rounds of enemy fire. He dropped the grenade, which exploded and killed him instantly.
He was only 26 at the time of his death.
Lest we forget

 

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Vietnam. 1966-03-11. Private Shorty Thirkell of Redfern, Sydney, NSW, uses a bush hat to wipe the sweat from his face while on patrol in the jungles of South Vietnam with the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), during Operation Silver City in War Zone D, fighting the Communist Viet Cong.
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Original description and photo sourced by: www.awm.gov.au/collection/C310083

 

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Thua Tich, South Vietnam. 1969-06. Exhausted after a successful night ambush and an attempted Viet Cong (VC) ambush earlier that day, 235254 Captain (Capt) Tom Henry Arrowsmith of Campbelltown, NSW, rests on top of his armoured personnel carrier (APC) at the Government outpost of Xuyen Moc. Capt Arrowsmith is the Commander of 2 Troop, B Squadron, 3rd Cavalry Regiment which, together with a force of infantry and engineers killed sixteen (eleven and later five) enemy in the two contacts and captured seven AK47 assault rifles, two RPG2 (rocket propelled grenade) rocket launchers, and a pistol, together with drugs, surgical instruments, and equipment. The armoured force, from the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) base at Nui Dat, was sweeping the area of north eastern Phuoc Tuy Province.
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Original description and photo sourced from: www.awm.gov.au/collection/C317874

 

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Medics!

Apparently these guys are Kiwis!?!

 

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Nui Dat, Phuoc Tuy Province. Private Bryan O'Donnell of 11 Platoon, D Company, 5th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), outside the battalion living quarters on Nui Dat Hill, later known as SAS Hill, with an AN/PVS-2 Night Vision Riflescope in his right hand and an M79 grenade launcher in his left hand.
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Original description and photo sourced from the Australian War Memorial

 

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South Vietnam. 1967. An American medical evacuation 'dustoff' helicopter takes aboard a casualty during operations in the jungle.
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Original description and photo sourced by www.awm.gov.au/collection/C290046

 

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Phuoc Tuy Province, Vietnam, c. 1967-05. Corporal Trent Grall, Section Commander of 3 Section, Assault Pioneer Platoon, Support Company, the 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR), priming M16 anti-personnel ("jumping jack") mines. He is about to lay them in the 11 kilometre-long minefield that the 1st Australian Task Force (ATF) was constructing from Dat Do to the coast.
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Original description and photo sourced by www.awm.gov.au/collection/C271769

 

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South Vietnam. c. 23 November 1967. Private Keith Craven, an M60 machine gunner with Fire Assault Platoon, Support Company, 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR), pauses momentarily in the jungle during Operation Forrest.
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Original description and photo sourced by: www.awm.gov.au/collection/C336177

 

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Nui Dat, Vietnam. 1967-12. Newly arrived members of 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), preparing their base camp for the Christmas season. Private John Barnes of Mullewa, WA (left), and Lance Corporal John Phillips of Coleraine, Vic, putting final decorations to a rubber tree outside their tent.
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Original description and photo sourced by www.awm.gov.au/collection/C316186