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Map illustrating the relative position of AO Surfers, Saigon and the Australian base at Nui Dat

A M2A2 105mm howitzer fires in support of 1 RAR from FSB Coral

A CH47 Chinook flies in a payload to the 102 Fd Bty LZ at FSB Coral

Bell UH 1 "Iroquois", more familiarly known as 'Hueys' dropping supplies at FSB Coral

3RAR’s Regimental Sergeant Major, Vince Murdoch, tends a wounded and blindfolded North Vietnamese soldier at Balmoral.

Surrounded by Australians, wounded North Vietnamese prisoners lie on makeshift stretchers and wait to be evacuated from Balmoral.

3RAR Defensive positions at Balmoral. The soldiers are wearing steel helmets and they have a very well prepared fully 'dug in' weapon pit prepared to 'Stage 3' complete with sleeping bays with overhead protection (sandbags) to protect against artillery and mortar splinters.

A group of PoW awaiting extraction by helicopter FSB Balmoral 28 May 1968

Australians dress the wounds of a North Vietnamese prisoner captured in the aftermath of an attack on Balmoral. AWM CRO/68/0580/VN

A Centurion tank in position behind a protective bund at FSB Balmoral

http://lachlanirvine.tripod.com/personal/id20.html

http://artilleryhistory.org/moments_in_history/on_this_day/1968/documents/real_story_of_fspb_coral_v7.pdf