Unidentified members of 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), on patrol in Phuoc ...

Unidentified members of 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), on patrol in Phuoc Tuy Province during Operation Ingham. According to a newspaper report published in the Sydney SUN, on 30 November 1966, these soldiers made contact with a single Viet Cong (VC) fighter, who immediately dropped his weapon (a Mosin Nagant Model 1944 carbine, held by the soldier, left) and ran to detonate an anti personnel mine from a remote location. The photographer Sean Flynn, who was travelling with the Australian patrol, began to photograph the unfolding event when he discovered the mine (partially visible left, foreground) which was wired and ready to detonate. Flynn shouted "Claymore!" whereupon the patrol leader raced to the mine, ripping out the wiring before the VC could detonate it. Other members of the patrol pursued the fugitive VC into the jungle, where he was shot dead. The Australians suffered no casualties and are seen here with their South Vietnamese interpreter (third from rear) after the contact. They are armed with a variety of weapons, including an M60 general purpose machine gun (GPMG) (background, centre) and 5.56 mm M16A1 automatic rifles (right). Two of the soldiers are also carrying 100 round belts of linked 7.62 mm ammunition for the M60 GPMGs. The South Vietnamese interpreter is armed with a .30 calibre M1 Carbine.