Accession Number | P04655.234 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Digital file |
Maker |
Gibbons, Denis Stanley |
Place made | Vietnam: Phuoc Tuy Province |
Date made | December 1969 |
Conflict |
Vietnam, 1962-1975 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: AWM Licensed copyright |
A sapper from 1 Field Squadron, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE), hands a roll of cord on a spool ...
Description
A sapper from 1 Field Squadron, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE), hands a roll of cord on a spool to a comrade who is inside the entrance to a Viet Cong bunker which is well supported and protected by a revetment of logs. The bunker is one of a complex that was discovered by A Company, 8RAR, in dense jungle during Operation Atherton, a reconnaissance and ambush operation in the northwest of the province and the battalion's first in Vietnam. The engineers, who are known colloquially as tunnel rats, will use the cord to detonate an explosive charge that will destroy the bunker.