Historical information

On 26 August 1967 members of 5 Platoon, B Company, 7 RAR were lifted by United States Army Iroquois helicopters from their location beside the road leading to Dat Do, and returned to their base at Nui Dat in Phuoc Tuy Province. These soldiers had completed the cordon and search of the village of Phuoc Hai, part of Operation Ulmarra.

Significance

This iconic image is etched on the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial on Anzac parade in Canberra. Operation Ulmarra was a one-day military cordon-and-search mission conducted by the 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR) on August 26, 1967. The operation targeted the coastal fishing village of Phuoc Hai in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, as part of the broader Operation Atherton

Physical description

Brown timber frame with grey mount containing photograph/print of three helicopters above group of soldiers in the field

Inscriptions & markings

Members of 5 Pl, B Coy, 7RAR
Just north of the village of Phuoc Hai,
In August 1967