Olive green long sleeved shirt : Viet Cong

Olive green cotton long sleeved Viet Cong shirt with brown plastic buttons. Seams top stitched in khaki cotton with two button flap pleated breast pockets. Both sleeve cuff buttons are missing.

Part of a collection of Viet Cong clothing and equipment captured at 1000 hours on 17 April 1969 by an Australian Task Force patrol. This material appears to have been gathered by a (New Zealand) patrol of 3 Squadron, Special Air Service Regiment. The patrol, operating in the Binh Ba area between 15 and 23 April, consisted of Sergeant W J Lillicrapp and Lance Corporals R T Williams, K Herewini, D A Pewhaiangi and P Wanoa. At 0925 on the 17th, the patrol entered an old Viet Cong campsite, and material was found strewn around the area. Fifteen minutes later, two Viet Cong were encountered and killed. Other material collected in this action is known to have included a pistol and two pounds of documents, none of which came to the Australian War Memorial.

• Full length olive green trousers : Viet Cong