Long Green area, South Vietnam. 1967-06. Two tracker dogs with their handlers, of 7th Battalion, ...

Place Asia: Vietnam
Accession Number P02060.038
Collection type Photograph
Object type Transparency
Maker Murphy, Gordon James
Place made Vietnam: South Vietnam
Date made June 1967
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
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Description

Long Green area, South Vietnam. 1967-06. Two tracker dogs with their handlers, of 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR), talking to the Battalion Second in Command, Major David Drabsch. Left to right: Norman Cameron with "Cassius", Major Drabsch, Tom Blackhurst with "Justinian", unknown. Shortly afterwards the dogs tracked a wounded Viet Cong (VC) soldier and were found licking his face.

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