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ABC special report: the war in Vietnam. The Australians in Vietnam.
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Maker: Australian Broadcasting Commission
The first item is an mute Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) news report using North Vietnamese and US news footage. Shows a Viet Cong supply route. Viet Cong guerillas in training with sub mach...F03255
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A 1 RAR operation in Vietnam operation 'Kick-off'. DPR/TV/336
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Operation "Kick off" was a multi-battalion search and destroy operation with United States and South Vietnamese units. The Australians were transported to the Plain of Reeds by armoured personnel carr...F10095
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A Viet Cong cottage industry DPR/TV/404,410
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Maker: Cunneen, William James
Australian Army engineers serving in Vietnam this week took a close look at Communist Viet Cong weapons handed to them for disposal after they had been captured by troops of the 5th Battalion, Royal A...F03777
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Booby traps a speciality DPR/TV/662
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Maker: Coleridge, Michael
Needle pointed panji stakes - primitive, but deadly - were featured in a lecture on captured Viet Cong booby traps given by Sergeant Brett Hogen of Tocumwal, NSW, in training members of his Engineer S...F03899
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Exercise Grass Parrot DPR/TV/779
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Maker: Dunne, Bryan Rupert
At first sight, just a peaceful South East Asian village...villagers at prayers in the temple, a group gossiping outside...but the army boots give the scene away. So do the faces...faces like that of ...F03968
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Interview with Neil Davis Roll 3 (Frontline out takes)
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Maker: Kim Dong Kyu Davis, Neil Brian Bradbury, David
Neil Davis as a cameraman correspondent describes Viet Cong (VC) tactics used against United States (US) and Australian troops; Australian troops' jungle warfare tactics, and how the VC adapted to the...F10477
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Interview with Neil Davis Roll 16 (Frontline out takes)
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Maker: Kim Dong Kyu Davis, Neil Brian Bradbury, David
Neil Davis as a cameraman correspondent describes his field equipment with demonstrations and close ups of the Bell and Howell DR70 16mm silent, Cinema Products CP16 sound on film cine cameras and por...F10490
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Interview with Neil Davis Roll 17 (Frontline out takes)
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Maker: Kim Dong Kyu Davis, Neil Brian Bradbury, David
Neil Davis as a cameraman correspondent describes how the Viet Cong combined booby traps and ambushes; dangerous jungle creatures and the story of how an American sentry was carried off by a tiger; aw...F10491
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Interview with Tim Bowden (Frontline out takes)
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Maker: Bowden, Timothy Gibson 'Tim' Bradbury, David
Tim Bowden as an ABC journalist in Vietnam. His experience on a twenty four hour stay with a United States Marine Corps unit on a search and destroy mission in a free fire zone. Told to walk in the t...F10540
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James Raymond Bourke as a Lieutenant 1 RAR interviewed by Greg Swanborough for 'The sharp end'
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Maker: The Notion Picture Company Pty Limited Bourke, James Raymond Swanborough, Greg
Scene 9. Take 1. describes the events coming into the Landing Zone (LZ) on the third lift of helicopters for the Ho Bo Woods operation on what they thought was a blocking position; the helicopter mach...F10621
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John Cyril Thompson as a Sapper 1 Field Troop Royal Australian Engineers interviewed by Greg Swanborough for 'The sharp end'
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Maker: The Notion Picture Company Pty Limited Thompson, John Cyril Swanborough, Greg
Sapper, 1 Field Squadron, Royal Australian Engineers. From 6 January 1967 to 23 June 1967. Scene 16, Take 1: Of about thirty thousand Australian mines laid, fifteen to twenty thousand were retrieved ...F10645
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[Military operations by the 9th Viet Cong Main Force Division in retaliation for the bombing of Hanoi and Hai Phong (Junction City) August 1966]
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Maker: Liberation Film Office
Captured North Vietnamese newsreels with American English language narration. Shows Viet Cong 9th Division preparations and in attack. Scenes of US dead and prisoners. Entertaining Chinese writers and...F03484
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Mutual support in Viet Cong camp clearance DPR/TV/843
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Maker: Errington, William Alexander (Bill)
Australian engineers and infantrymen closely supported each other when searching Viet Cong (VC) camps, tunnel systems and hides after the recent communist attacks on Australian fire support base 'Cora...F04195
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Operation "rice bowl" DPR/TV/322-328
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Australian troops from 1RAR, detachment of 4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse R.A.A.C., together with New Zealand artillery, several U.S. infantry battalions and Vietnamese units took part in a dr...F10091
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Strolling with death: Australian Army ammunition technicians in Vietnam DPR/TV/1426
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Australian Army ammunition technicians, like Warrant Officer Class Two "Rocky" Lane of Boondall, Qld, have a task which is an almost constant hand-in-hand stroll with death. Warrant Officer Lane, in S...F04513
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[3 Troop 'B' Squadron 3 Cavalry Regiment, Vietnam 1969-1970] / Hugh Carlyle
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Maker: Carlyle, Hugh
This footage was filmed by Trooper Hugh Carlyle who was killed in action on 18 February 1970. Trooper Carlyle never saw these films as they were sent back to Australia for processing. The following de...F03738
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Viet Cong supplies disrupted DPR/TV/367
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Maker: Cunneen, William James
Australian soldiers now on operations are using hunger as a potent weapon against the Viet Cong by seizing supplies of rice, fish oil and other food hidden in caches deep in the jungles of South Viet ...F03763
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Vietnam village search DPR/TV/570
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Officers of the 5th Battalion RAR are briefed by their CO, Lieutenant Colonel J A Warr for an operation to cordon and search a village for suspect Viet Cong and their sympathisers. Troops disembark f...F10135