A machine-gunner from D Company, 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR), checks the ...

Accession Number CRO/68/0085/VN
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Crothers, Richard William
Place made Vietnam: Bien Hoa Province
Date made February 1968
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

A machine-gunner from D Company, 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR), checks the body of a dead Viet Cong following a successful ambush on a jungle track during Operation Coburg. The battalion was operating with other elements of the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF), in Bien Hoa Province, twenty miles north-east of Saigon.

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