Three part coloured print of 9RAR soldiers in action in jungle warfare(printed) Artist: Harold Lane 1987bunker assault, 9 rar

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 taken at 12:22am on the 4th March 1969 at Tonkin Gulf, on board USS New Jersey. Military photographer, Denis Gibbons, fires a full salvo of 1900lb shells 29400 yards at a bunker complex in North Vietnam.photograph, uss new jersey, tonkin gulf, gibbons collection catalogue, denis gibbons, photographer, vietnam war, bunker assault

Ill, p.320.non-fictioniraq war - personal narratives, iraq war - battle of fallujah

During the Tet Offensive in Vietnan in February 1968 and Australian infamtry company assaulted a North Vietnamese bunker complex. In the longest sustained attack fought by Australians during the Vietnam War the soldiers were forward again and again over three days. Yet the battle passed without any notice in Australia at the time, and the men who fought it were further insulted by higher command's apparent failure to acknowlede what they had done.tet offensive, 1968, vietnam war, 1961-1975 -- participation, australian, soldiers -- australia -- history, north vietnamese bunker