A soldier of 5RAR, armed with an Owen submachine gun, watches Long Tan village burn. Soldiers of the Royal Australian Regiment enter a village, looking for indications of Communist activity during an operation west of Nui Dat. An Australian 105mm howitzer fires from Nui Dat in support of the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment. A patrol from the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, makes its way through elephant grass toward a rubber plantation near Ba Ria, southwest of the Australian base at Nui Dat. Aggressive Australian patrolling helped to disrupt the VC infrastructure in Phuoc Tuy province.
Australian soldiers try to win the allegiance of a local farmer.