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Bendigo Military Museum
Map - SB55-10 Markham Joint Operations Graphics Air and Ground print separations, Royal Australian Survey Corps, Bendigo, Dec 1981
This set of map prints was assembled as a training aid. The collection is a complete set of individual color prints of each colour used on the final printed maps for each map Joint Operations Graphic (JOG) JOG Ground and JOG Air versions. This map series was produced in two versions to help coordinate military Ground Operations and Air Operations. The ground users required that heights and measurements were in Metres, whilst air users required height information in Feet for altimeters. The Air Version also contained more Aeronautical information including safe flying height information called Maximum Elevation Figures (MEF). Later printing of JOG incorporated printing in just four colours Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black (CMYK). Item 6421.1 is an example of a JOG Ground and item 6421.2 is an example of its matching JOG Air version.1:250,000 SB55-10 Markham JOG A and G colour separations bound together in a manilla card covered folder bound with a timber edge. royal australian survey corps, rasvy, fortuna, army survey regiment, army svy regt, asr -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Photograph, Gibbons, Denis, Fire Support Base Baton 5
Denis Gibbons (1937 – 2011) Trained with the Australian Army, before travelling to Vietnam in January 1966, Denis stayed with the 1st Australian Task Force in Nui Dat working as a photographer. For almost five years Gibbons toured with nine Australian infantry battalions, posting compelling war images from within many combat zones before being flown out in late November 1970 after sustaining injuries. The images held within the National Vietnam Veterans Museum make up the Gibbons Collection.A black and white photograph of Gunners, 101 Battery, 1st Field Regimentt, RAA at Fire Support Base Baton using a sledge hammer, pound a steel stake into the ground while another member of the gun crew waits to do the same. The gunners were erecting a cover over their shells. (circa July 1969)photograph, 101 battery, 1st australian field regiment, raa, 1st atf base, nui dat, d445 battalion (nva/vietcong), fire support base baton, gibbons collection catalogue, gunners, 1st australian task force, denis gibbons