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AWM Caption: Members of 5 Platoon, B Company, 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR), just north of the village of Phuoc Hai, beside the road leading to Dat Do. United States Army Iroquois helicopters are landing to take them back to Nui Dat after completion of Operation Ulmarra, the cordon and search by 7RAR of the village of Phuoc Hai. Operation Ulmarra was part of Operation Atherton, conducted by 2RAR/NZ (Anzac) (The Anzac Battalion comprising 2nd Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR) and a component from the 1st Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment) and 7RAR. Left to right: Private (Pte) Peter Capp (kneeling); Pte Bob Fennell (crouching, facing camera); Corporal Bob Darcy (left of Fennell); Pte Neal Hasted (centre, front); Pte Ian Jury (centre, back, holding rifle); Pte Colin Barnett (front, right); Lance Corporal Stan Whitford (left of Barnett); helicopter marker at right is Pte John Raymond Gould. The United States Army Iroquois UH-1D helicopter is operated by 2 Platoon, 162nd Assault Helicopter Company, 11th Combat Aviation Battalion. (Having achieved almost the status of an icon, this image was chosen for, and is etched on, the Vietnam memorial on Anzac parade, Canberra, ACT, dedicated in October 1992) (A black and white version of this image held as COL/67/0781/VN)

Source Australian War Memorial (AWM) catalog number EKN/67/0130/VN
Date

26 August 1967

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Michael Coleridge

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current15:44, 27 May 2019Thumbnail for version as of 15:44, 27 May 20192,953 × 2,446 (1.48 MB)AtomCrusher (talk | contribs)Re-uploading larger public domain image
22:22, 13 October 2017Thumbnail for version as of 22:22, 13 October 2017347 × 287 (23 KB)DatBot (talk | contribs)Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable)
23:24, 20 April 2011No thumbnail450 × 373 (85 KB)Nick-D (talk | contribs)Reverted to version as of 03:18, 20 April 2011 per User talk:Keraunoscopia - this is now the version on the AWM's website