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Anti-guerilla preparations DPR/TV/436
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Anti-guerilla operations are the theme of Exercise Phoenix being held by the 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, at Tin Can Bay, Queensland, until September 16. The Battalion exercise is a prelu...F03792
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Australians train Vietnamese DPR/TV/1117
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Maker: Combe, David Reginald
An Australian programme of refresher training for soldiers of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam is now under way. The 2nd/48th ARVN Battalion, the first of three battalions to undertake the six week...F04727
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Barra Winga final battle DPR/TV/501,503,504
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The Battle for Manifold, a "Queensland Cong" stronghold was the climax this week of Exercise "Barra Winga", which has just ended in the Army's Shoalwater Bay training area in Queensland. It was a batt...F03813
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Elusive enemy (DPR132)
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Maker: Defence Public Relations (DPR)
At the Jungle Warfare Training Centre, Canungra at typical South East Asian village has been built to test the army's knowledge of guerilla warfare. Soldiers dressed as enemy guerillas add to the real...F03175
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Engineers prepare DPR/TV/448 & 451
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Army Engineers of the 21st Construction Squadron are playing a major role in the preparations for Exercise "Barra Winga" at Raspberry Creek, in the Army's Shoalwater Bay exercise area. The main exerci...F03802
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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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Exercise Life Saver DPR/TV/1078
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Maker: L'Estrange, Brian Edwin
Australian soldiers who go to Vietnam for active service have not said goodbye to their days of training. Training is a constant fact of life with the soldier, whether in Australia or on active servic...F04320
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Jungle village realism DPR/TV/74
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Maker: Defence Public Relations (DPR)
More than 300 hundred troops made a daylight raid on a mock native village near Holsworthy, NSW this week. The successful raid resulted in about 20 men representing communist terrorists being rounded...F03651
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Medvac training DPR/TV/581
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Maker: Keenan
Rapid air evacuation of wounded and injured soldiers is one of the most important factors in maintaining the morale of Australian troops serving in South Vietnam. Exercise umpires at Exercise Nilla Qu...F03853
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RAAF drops paratroops in Vietnam
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In the biggest exercise of its kind involving Australians in Vietnam, 100 soldiers of No. 3 Special Air Service Squadron were parachuted into open territory about nine miles due west of Nui Dat by a C...F02772
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6 RAR conquers Mt Spec North Queensland DPR/TV/973
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Maker: Dunne, Bryan Rupert
Australia's Sixth Battalion, led by Lieutenant Colonel David Butler, has conquered Mt Spec, 20 miles south of Ingham, North Queensland. The battalion has hacked its way through some of the densest tro...F04265
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6 RAR exercise DPR/TV/370
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Maker: May, David Douglas
Raspberry Creek: Bone-weary, dirty and grimm assault pioneers of 6 Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment after a 28 hour foot-slog through "enemy" held territory at Shoalwater Bay raced against tim...F03764
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[7 RAR in Vietnam 1967-1968] / Thomas E. Hunt
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Maker: Hunt, Thomas Edward
7 RAR in Vietnam 1967-1968. Activities at Nui Dat base training and target practice. Visiting entertainers stage a show. A jungle patrol. Flight in a Iroquois helicopter. Chinook helicopter lands...F03523
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Training for Vietnam DPR/TV/672
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The 8th battalion Royal Australian Regiment, this week launched a full-scale cordon and search operation on the small village of Raspberry Vale, in search of a political cadre of two enemy Queensland ...F03904
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Tunnel clearance exercise DPR/TV/359
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Australian Army 3rd Field Troop Engineers facing dangerous searches of Viet Cong tunnel complexes in Viet Nam are undergoing intensive specialist training with rescue breathing equipment. Guided by Wa...F03756