ARN 169007, one of the 52 ton Centurion tanks of C Squadron, 1st Armoured Regiment (1AR) sent to ...

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Accession Number CRO/68/0170/VN
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Crothers, Richard William
Place made Vietnam: Phuoc Tuy Province, Ba Ria
Date made March 1968
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

ARN 169007, one of the 52 ton Centurion tanks of C Squadron, 1st Armoured Regiment (1AR) sent to Vietnam to bolster the firepower of the Australian Task Force is unloaded off a landing craft near Baria, the capital of Phuoc Tuy Province. The tanks were ferried up river from Vung Tau and then driven to the 1st Australian Task Force base at Nui Dat.