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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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Artillery in Vietnam DPR/TV/1227
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Maker: Bellis, Christopher John
Chinook coming into fire support base Peggy lifting guns out. Unpacking gear fixed onto guns for lift. Guns being unlimbered and swung into position. General sounds as gun is set in. Gun being prepare...F04414
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Australians battle Viet Cong in the Long Hais DPR/TV/1250
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Maker: Fairley, John Geoffrey
Australian troops in Vietnam returned on Saturday to the scene of Wednesday's battle - the biggest for six months - to sweep the area. For two days the area had been plastered with artillery and air s...F04428
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Australians in heavy battle: rolls 1, 2 and first part of roll 4 DPR/TV/1167
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Maker: Bellis, Christopher John
Thirty eight Australian soldiers were wounded and one killed when 'A' Company 5RAR on Operation Camden engaged in a fierce battle with elements of Viet Cong 274 Regiment entrenched in a complex bunker...F04377
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Australian troops destroy Viet Cong camp DPR/TV/715
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Maker: Thurgar, Kevin Denham
Operation Kenmore kicked off to an early start for 7th Battalion's Alpha Company in an area being searched for the first time to the north-east of the 1st Australian Task Force base at Nui Dat in Phuo...F04185
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7 Battalion, RAR, Operation Lismore DPR/TV/619
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Newly arrived troops of the 7th Battalion have completed a search and destroy operation code named 'Lismore' in which they made their first contact with the Viet Cong. This item shows the troops bein...F10149
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Binh Ba battle DPR/TV/1114
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Maker: Bellis, Christopher John
Australian and South Vietnamese soldiers joined in a major action last weekend to clear an estimated 90 enemy from the village of Binh Ba, five miles north of the 1st Australian Task Force base at Nui...F04342
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Bunkers destroyed DPR/TV/1367C
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Maker: Cunneen, William James
In South Vietnam, soldiers of the 7th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, have uncovered and destroyed a secret enemy command bunker system. The bunkers, virtually invisible from the air, were in th...F04485
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Construction moves apace in 7 RAR DPR/TV/642
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Maker: Coleridge, Michael
Because operations are mounted regularly against the Viet Cong by the 1st Australian Task Force in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, troops from the Victorian based 7th Battalion, Royal Australian Re...F03892
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Dat Do protection DPR/TV/1108
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Maker: Combe, David Reginald
Australian Army engineers and Vietnamese Government Regional Force troops are working together to provide a new defensive system for the village of Dat Do, about 4 miles South East of the Australian T...F04338
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Joint Operation in Vietnam DPR/TV/1088
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Maker: Combe, David Reginald
Armoured Personnel Carriers from the 1st Aust Task Force in Vietnam thundered into the village of Xuyen Moc recently for a joint operation with Vietnamese forces. After the Commander of the APCs (A Sq...F04326
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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 Burnham DPR/TV/1171
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Maker: Combe, David Reginald
Near century temperatures and hundred percent humidity is enough to drive anyone to their favourite water hole. These Australian soldiers in South Vietnam are not out for a quick dip, though. The unbe...F04381
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Operation Darwin DPR/TV/635
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Maker: Campbell, Byron Charles
Operation Darwin, the second search and destroy operation in Viet Nam for troops of the Second Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, resulted in three enemy bunkers being destroyed and an old base cam...F03889
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Operation Lismore DPR/TV/619
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Maker: Coleridge, Michael
Newly arrived troops of 7th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, from Puckapunyal, Victoria, completed search and destroy Operation Lismore this week in which they made their first contact with Viet ...F03876
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Protection of friendly bunkers against RPG-2 and RPG-7 antitank launchers
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Maker: 221st Signal Company SEA Pictorial Center 600th Photographic Squadron USAF
Test firings of captured North Vietnamese and Viet Cong RPG-2 and RPG-7 Rocket Propelled Grenade launchers (RPG) by the United States Combined Material Exploration Center at Di An Republic of Vietnam....F03583
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7 RAR patrol on Coburg DPR/TV/776
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Maker: Crothers, Richard William
Intensive patrolling through thick jungle growth by the 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, on current Operation Coburg in Vietnam, has uncovered numerous Viet Cong camps in Bien Hoa Provinc...F03710
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5 RAR's last operation [Bondi] DPR/TV/1246
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Maker: Ward, Peter Anthony
The 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, has just completed its last major operation in the Vietnamese War Zone before leaving to return to Australia at the end of the month. Called the Tiger...F04424
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River patrol Operation Portsea DPR/TV/595
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Maker: Coleridge, Michael
Twisting for miles through the mangroves and open rice padi country in Vietnam, the Song Rai River, in the east of Phuoc Tuy province, was searched during Operation Portsea by soldiers of the Assault ...F03859
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Tour of Vietnam: [4 RAR and 9 RAR 1969]
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Maker: Tate, Donald William
'D' Company 4 RAR preparing to leave on Operation Stafford. Shows various aspects of redeployment into the jungle by 9 Sqn RAAF Iroquois helicopters from Luscombe airfield Nui, Dat. On Operation Staff...F04756
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Viet Cong camp discovered DPR/TV/983
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Troops of "C" Company, 4th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment - the ANZAC Battalion in Vietnam, this week found a Viet Cong base camp consisting of about 70 bunkers. The camp was capable of hold...F04268