| Accession Number | P04665.681 |
|---|---|
| Collection type | Photograph |
| Object type | Digital file |
| Maker |
Gibbons, Denis Stanley |
| Place made | Vietnam: Phuoc Tuy Province, Thua Tich |
| Date made | 30 May 1970 |
| Conflict |
Vietnam, 1962-1975 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: AWM Licensed copyright |
Three unidentified members of the Defence and Employment (D&E) Platoon of the 1st Australian Task ...
Description
Three unidentified members of the Defence and Employment (D&E) Platoon of the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) pause to look at the dead body of a Viet Cong guerrilla lying on the dirt road known as Route 328 as they walk past. The man was one of eleven Viet Cong killed the previous night when a section of the D&E Platoon and Armoured Personnel Carriers (APCs) of 2 Troop, B Squadron, 3 Cavalry Regiment, ambushed a party of over fifty enemy troops on the southern outskirts of the abandoned village of Thua Tich about 24 kilometres north east of the 1ATF base at Nui Dat.