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ABC special report: the war in Vietnam. The Australians in Vietnam.
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Maker: Australian Broadcasting Commission
The first item is an mute Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) news report using North Vietnamese and US news footage. Shows a Viet Cong supply route. Viet Cong guerillas in training with sub mach...F03255
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Alexander (High (Sandy) MacGregor as the Commanding Officer 3 Field Troop Australian Engineers interviewed by Greg Swanborough for 'The sharp end'
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Maker: The Notion Picture Company Pty Limited MacGregor, Alexander Hugh 'Sandy' Swanborough, Greg
CO 3 Field Troop Australian Engineers 19 September 1966 to 29 April 1966. 1 Field Squadron 30 April 1966 to 12 October 1966. Scene 9, Take 1: Describes early techniques used to enter tunnels. Men wer...F10652
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Big enemy camps found destroyed DPR/TV/1150
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Maker: Bellis, Christopher John
Australian infantry soldiers on a special short operation in Phuoc Tuy Province, Vietnam, have found three large permanent rest and recreation villages and staging areas in the east as well as a nine-...F04363
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5 Bn RAR capture V.C. dominated village DPR/TV/419
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Troops of the 5th Battalion, RAR, moved in at night to surround a Viet Cong dominated village. The troops tied themselves together with ropes to avoid losing contact during the night manoeuvres. At ...F10107
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Cordon and search Duc Trung. Civic aid follows search DPR/TV/1228
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Maker: Bellis, Christopher John
Soldiers of Australia's 5th Battalion, in South Vietnam last week, carried out a successful cordon and search operation in Phuoc Tuy Province, concentrating on the hamlet of Duc Trung, just north of t...F04415
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Dennis Cameron Ayoub as a Sapper 3 Field Troop Australian Engineers interviewed by Greg Swanborough for 'The sharp end'.
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Maker: The Notion Picture Company Pty Limited Ayoub, Dennis Cameron Swanborough, Greg
Sapper 3 Field Troop Australian Engineers 11 September 1965 to 29 April 1966. Sapper 3 Field Troop Australian Engineers 30 April 1966 to 20 September 1966. Scene 9, Take 1; Ayoub a radio operator but...F10653
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Flushing the Nui Dinh hills in Phuoc Tuy Province DPR/TV/764
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Maker: Thurgar, Kevin Denham
Troops from 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, and 1st Field Squadron, Royal Australian Engineers, have rounded off another phase of Operation Forrest, with finds of numerous Viet Cong inst...F03960
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Ivan Reginald Barnett as a Sapper Royal Australian Engineers interviewed by Greg Swanborough for 'The sharp end'
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Maker: The Notion Picture Company Pty Limited Barnett, Ivan Reginald Swanborough, Greg
Scene 9 Take 1; Asked to recount the dog story; describes going down a tunnel 4 to 5 feet deep and crawling 70 ft then went right and then left then went up some stairs which went under a house; did a...F10628
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James Raymond Bourke as a Lieutenant 1 RAR interviewed by Greg Swanborough for 'The sharp end'
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Maker: The Notion Picture Company Pty Limited Bourke, James Raymond Swanborough, Greg
Scene 9. Take 1. describes the events coming into the Landing Zone (LZ) on the third lift of helicopters for the Ho Bo Woods operation on what they thought was a blocking position; the helicopter mach...F10621
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John Boyd Healy AATTV and 1 RAR interviewed by Greg Swanborough for 'The sharp end'
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Maker: Petersen, Joel Swanborough, Greg Healy, John Boyd Swanborough, Greg Gentle, Victor
Scene 1 Takes 1-3 Rolls 6-7. Australian Army Training Team (AATTV) were the first Australian troops sent to Vietnam in 1962; departing Singapore in civilian clothing because Singapore didn’t want to b...F10605
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Night move on village DPR/TV/419
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During a recent operation in Vietnam, soldiers of the 5th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, moved at night to surround a Viet Cong dominated village. The troops tied themselves together with ropes...F03801
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Operation Darwin DPR/TV/635
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Maker: Campbell, Byron Charles
Operation Darwin, the second search and destroy operation in Viet Nam for troops of the Second Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, resulted in three enemy bunkers being destroyed and an old base cam...F03889
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Operation Enogerra DPR/TV/412
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Maker: Cunneen, William James
Australian Army engineers moved into the first operation, Operation Enoggera, carried out by the Sixth Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, in the fourth wee...F03781
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Operation Lismore DPR/TV/619
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Maker: Coleridge, Michael
Newly arrived troops of 7th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, from Puckapunyal, Victoria, completed search and destroy Operation Lismore this week in which they made their first contact with Viet ...F03876
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6 RAR in Vietnam action DPR/TV/571
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Maker: Coleridge, Michael
At dawn in Vietnam, 16 American helicopters arrived at the Australian Task Force base airstrip to fly out troops of 6th Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment on a search and destroy operation. Army...F03848
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6 RAR in Vietnam action DPR/TV/571
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Maker: Coleridge, Michael
6 Battalion RAR troops were transported from the Australian Task Force base airstrip by American 'Iroquois' helicopters to an area on a search and destroy operation. It took several round trips to fl...F10133
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Return to Long Tan DPR/TV/620
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Maker: Campbell, Byron Charles
Troops of Charlie Company, 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment completed this week what will probably be their last operation in Vietnam before returning home to Australia. The 6th Battalion hand...F03877
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Search at Hoa Long DPR/TV/1294
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Maker: Fairley, John Geoffrey
In Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, the search by Australian soldiers for Viet Cong is never-ending. In the village of Hoa Long engineers search for an enemy tunnel system known to be in the village...F04451
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Tunnel treatment DPR/TV/1071
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Maker: Combe, David Reginald
Australian troops in Vietnam are again using a special technique to deny the Viet Cong bunker complexes after they have been discovered. Each bunker is seeded with CS2 Crystals which makes them uninha...F04315
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30 Viet Cong tunnels DPR/TV/892
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Maker: Bull, Malcolm Norman
Australian troops this week used a special detector to find more than thirty Viet Cong tunnels and underground hides in an area about two miles south of their Task Force base at Nui Dat in Phuoc Tuy P...F04222