AUSTRALIAN ARMOURED PERSONNEL CARRIERS ROLL THROUGH A VILLAGE STREET DURING OPERATION ABILENE, A ...

Place Asia: Vietnam
Accession Number CUN/66/0296/VN
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white, Landscape
Physical description Black & white, Landscape
Maker Cunneen, William James
Place made Vietnam: South Vietnam
Date made 30 March 1966-15 April 1966
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

AUSTRALIAN ARMOURED PERSONNEL CARRIERS ROLL THROUGH A VILLAGE STREET DURING OPERATION ABILENE, A SEARCH AND DESTROY MISSION IN WHICH TROOPS OF THE 1ST BATTALION, THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN REGIMENT (1RAR), AND THE 1ST ARMOURED PERSONNEL CARRIER TROOP TOOK PART. THE CARRIERS WERE ESCORTING A ROAD CONVOY RETURNING TO THEIR BASE AT BIEN HOA WHEN THEY PASSED THROUGH THE VILLAGE.