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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 This item is in the Public Domain |
ARN 169007, one of the 52 ton Centurion tanks of C Squadron, 1st Armoured Regiment (1AR) sent to ...
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.