An instructor at the Australian Army's Infantry Centre demonstrates a replica of a Viet Cong ...

Accession Number P04669.727
Collection type Photograph
Object type Digital file
Maker Gibbons, Denis Stanley
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney, Ingleburn
Date made late December 1966
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
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Description

An instructor at the Australian Army's Infantry Centre demonstrates a replica of a Viet Cong booby trap that is used as an aid in the instruction of Infantry Corps trainees. The improvised weapon consists of short lengths of timber joined together and infixed with sharpened bamboo spikes called punji sticks. It is spring-loaded and is designed to swing forward and smash into an unwary soldier walking along a track.

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