6 Bn RAR [featuring 1st year National Servicemen] in operation; Phuoc Tuy Province. DPR/TV/415

National servicemen posted to the 6th Battalion RAR and other units of the 1st Australian Task Force Vietnam are beginning their second year as soldiers. This film shows the battalion's first operation against the Viet Cong. National service trooper driving 10 ton APC of 1st Armoured Personnel Carrier Squadron; national service signalman laying telephone wire and operating field switchboard; mortar platoon in action; troops on patrol through thick undergrowth and banana plantation. Identified personnel: Trooper Geoff Newman of Balwyn, VIC, Private Rodney Bowe of Mackay, QLD, Private Peter Madden of Darra, QLD, Private Peter Weymouth of Greenslopes, QLD, Private Dale Misfield of Toowoomba, QLD, Private Jim Gordon of Ferntree Gully, Private Gordon Mears of Rockhampton, QLD, Private Kevin Denver of Maitland, Sergeant Lance Larcombe of Salisbury, SA.