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A day in the life of a grenade expert and his death (Visnews production number 13593-72)
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Maker: Davis, Neil Brian
This dramatic film shows the death of a grenade thrower in the South Vietnamese Army. After making a series of single handed attacks on a Viet Cong position he returns safely to his own lines then col...F10521
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Australians find large cache DPR/TV/1222
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Maker: Ward, Peter Anthony
In Vietnam last week the enemy effort in Phuoc Tuy Province received a major set-back when an Australian infantry company discovered a cache of about three tons of mines and grenades and numerous weap...F04412
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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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A Viet Cong 'cottage industry' (improvised Viet Cong anti-personnel and tank mines). DPR/TV/410
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Maker: Defence Public Relations (DPR)
Australian Army Engineers examine and destroy Viet Cong explosives captured by 5th Battalion RAR. The ammunition included home made and Chinese manufactured grenades, Viet Cong captured American 155mm...F10100
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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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Colonel in pony drawn cart leads Khmer troops into Communist territory (Visnews production number 14265-71)
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Maker: Davis, Neil Brian
A Khmer battalion led by a colonel in a pony-drawn cart edged cautiously into communist territory last Monday (29 November) just north of the capital of Phnom Penh. The day before the battalion lost 2...F10513
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[Khmer] Government and Communist forces in fierce close combat near Phnom Penh (Visnews production number 14584-71)
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Maker: Davis, Neil Brian
Government and Communist forces were on Monday (6 December) locked in a fierce close combat duel for control of the western approaches to Phnom Penh. The fighting - mainly with mortars, automatic rifl...F10514
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Operation Smithfield DPR/TV/423 [Long Tan]
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Maker: Cunneen, William James
In Vietnam, the battle of Nui Dat [sic.] (Long Tan) in which soldiers of Delta Company of the Sixth Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, fought an epic stand against a hard core communist battalion, ...F03784
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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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Vietnamese Battalion on operation after retraining DPR/TV/1173
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Maker: Bellis, Christopher John
A Vietnamese Army battalion which has just been retrained by the Australians is on its shakedown operation. The Third Battalion, 43rd Regiment of the 18th ARVN Division, working with its teachers, Bra...F04382
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Vietnamese interpreters introduction to military skills DPR/TV/500
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Maker: Cunneen, William James
Interpreters are almost as important as rifles to the Australian Army in Vietnam, where interrogation of villagers and Vietcong suspects can mean the difference between clean victories and fruitless s...F03812