A wounded Viet Cong prisoner is comforted by Lieutenant Dennis Rainer of Armadale, WA, ...

Accession Number FOR/66/0604/VN
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Ford, Darrell Colin
Place made Vietnam: Phuoc Tuy Province, Duc My
Date made 20 July 1966
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
Copyright

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Description

A wounded Viet Cong prisoner is comforted by Lieutenant Dennis Rainer of Armadale, WA, Officer-in-charge 10 Platoon, D Company, during Operation Sydney II, the cordon and search of the village of Duc My, when soldiers of the 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR), found the man in a bunker where he hid after being shot in the leg.