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A display board showing a range of explosive devices. Identified from left: A selection of four ...
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Maker: Kemp, John Howard
A display board showing a range of explosive devices. Identified from left: A selection of four US smoke and fragmentation grenades; a selection of US 40 mm rounds for use with the M79 and later M203 ...P02979.008
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A group of soldiers from C Company, 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), treating ...
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Maker: Coates, Winston Ford, Darrell Colin
A group of soldiers from C Company, 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), treating Private (Pte) Robert (Bob) Box, injured by shrapnel from a booby trapped hand grenade during Operatio...P01353.001
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An example of a booby trapped shaped charge mine that has been placed by Viet Cong fighters and ...
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Maker: Kemp, John Howard
An example of a booby trapped shaped charge mine that has been placed by Viet Cong fighters and excavated by Sappers from the Royal Australian Engineers. The homemade pressure contact plate (centre) i...P02979.002
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An injured soldier is about to be evacuated to hospital by a United States Army UH1B helicopter ...
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Maker: Coates, Winston Ford, Darrell Colin
An injured soldier is about to be evacuated to hospital by a United States Army UH1B helicopter (dustoff). Seven soldiers from 8 Platoon, C Company, 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR)...P01353.008
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A satchel charge, other explosive devices and detonating cords have been stacked up against a ...
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Maker: Tick, John
A satchel charge, other explosive devices and detonating cords have been stacked up against a tree and had C4 slab charges attached to them in preparation for their being blown up by sappers of 2 Fiel...P05389.016
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A United States Army UH1B helicopter (dustoff) about to take off for the 36th Casualty Evacuation ...
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Maker: Coates, Winston Ford, Darrell Colin
A United States Army UH1B helicopter (dustoff) about to take off for the 36th Casualty Evacuation Hospital with soldiers from 8 Platoon, C Company, 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR),...P01353.009
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A United States (US) manufactured M16 anti personnel (AP) mine. These AP mines are designed to ...
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Maker: Kemp, John Howard
A United States (US) manufactured M16 anti personnel (AP) mine. These AP mines are designed to 'jump' and explode between one and two metres above the ground. The mine is triggered when one of the thr...P02979.003
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A VIET CONG BOOBY TRAP CONSISTING OF A GRENADE SET IN A ROAD AND TRIGGERED BY A STRING, FOUND BY ...
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Maker: MacGregor, Alexander Hugh 'Sandy'
A VIET CONG BOOBY TRAP CONSISTING OF A GRENADE SET IN A ROAD AND TRIGGERED BY A STRING, FOUND BY MINE DETECTORS.P01595.044
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Duc My, South Vietnam. August 1971. Warrant Officer Class 2 (WO2) Wayne Shennon of Mt Gravatt, ...
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Maker: Cunneen, William James
Duc My, South Vietnam. August 1971. Warrant Officer Class 2 (WO2) Wayne Shennon of Mt Gravatt, Qld (left), explains the intricacies of a booby trap in a mock Viet Cong village at the Ranger Training C...CUN/71/0420/VN
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EXPLOSIVES (TNT) TIED TO A BAMBOO STICK WITH A DETONATION CORD - PROBABLY A VIET CONG BOOBY TRAP.
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Maker: MacGregor, Alexander Hugh 'Sandy'
EXPLOSIVES (TNT) TIED TO A BAMBOO STICK WITH A DETONATION CORD - PROBABLY A VIET CONG BOOBY TRAP.P01595.106
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Ingleburn, NSW. 23 February 1967. An escort of one officer and fifty soldiers from the Infantry ...
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Maker: Smith or Smither
Ingleburn, NSW. 23 February 1967. An escort of one officer and fifty soldiers from the Infantry Centre, Ingleburn, a firing party, the Eastern Command Band, a bearer party and police motor cycle escor...SMT/67/0078/EC
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Inside knowledge of the Viet Cong's (VC) methods and tactics pays dividends. Here a former VC, ...
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Maker: Blanch, Kenneth Roy Hilton
Inside knowledge of the Viet Cong's (VC) methods and tactics pays dividends. Here a former VC, Bushman Scout, Son (right) holding a 5.56 mm M16A1 automatic rifle, showing two members of an Australian ...BLA/70/0743/VN
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MEMBERS OF ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ENGINEERS DIG AROUND A VIET CONG BOOBY TRAP COMPRISING A GRENADE SET ...
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Maker: MacGregor, Alexander Hugh 'Sandy'
MEMBERS OF ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ENGINEERS DIG AROUND A VIET CONG BOOBY TRAP COMPRISING A GRENADE SET IN A ROAD AND TRIGGERED BY A STRING. IT WAS FOUND BY MINE DETECTORS.P01595.045
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Nui Dat, South Vietnam. May 1971. Corporal Frank Brady of Perth, WA, operates a booby trap switch ...
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Maker: Errington, Philip John
Nui Dat, South Vietnam. May 1971. Corporal Frank Brady of Perth, WA, operates a booby trap switch in the booby trap lane at the Jungle Warfare Training Centre (JWTC) at Nui Dat in Phuoc Tuy Province. ...PJE/71/0261/VN
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One of seven soldiers from 8 Platoon, C Company, 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment ...
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Maker: Coates, Winston Ford, Darrell Colin
One of seven soldiers from 8 Platoon, C Company, 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), injured by shrapnel from a booby trap grenade during Operation Canberra saouth west of Nui Dat, is...P01353.003
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Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. 18 February 1970. Sapper (Spr) Paul Scott of Beverley Hills, ...
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Maker: Ward, Peter Anthony
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. 18 February 1970. Sapper (Spr) Paul Scott of Beverley Hills, NSW, gives his M16 automatic rifle a thorough cleaning before B Company of 8th Battalion, The Royal Aust...WAR/70/0108/VN
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Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. 14 July 1971. Explosives Demolition experts Warrant Officer ...
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Maker: Cunneen, William James
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. 14 July 1971. Explosives Demolition experts Warrant Officer Class 2 Rocky Lane of Brisbane, Qld (right), and Staff Sergeant Bill Thornton of Denman, NSW, remove an o...CUN/71/0386/VN
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Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. June 1971. Sergeant Harry Bird of Penrith, NSW, holds a Viet ...
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Maker: Ford, John Alfred
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. June 1971. Sergeant Harry Bird of Penrith, NSW, holds a Viet Cong (VC) switch used for mines and booby traps. The VC have proved ingenious at making these switches f...FOD/71/0274/VN
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Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. November 1970. Sapper Keith Scott (right) watches his twin ...
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Maker: Fairley, John Geoffrey
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. November 1970. Sapper Keith Scott (right) watches his twin brother Lance Corporal Paul Scott give the `enemy bunker' sign just before they parted on different operat...FAI/70/0796/VN
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Phuoc Tuy Province, Vietnam, c. 1967-09. Corporal Trent Grall, Commander of 3 Section, Assault ...
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Maker: Aitken, Peter
Phuoc Tuy Province, Vietnam, c. 1967-09. Corporal Trent Grall, Commander of 3 Section, Assault Pioneer Platoon, Support Company, the 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR), squatting outs...P01798.002