3rd Cavalry Regiment - History

South Vietnam December 1966 - 3 Troop A Squadron, 3 Cav

Phuoc Tuy Province, Vietnam, August 3rd 1968. APC Call sign 33 of A Squadron, 3rd Cavalry Regiment, Royal Australian Armoured Corps (RAAC), on fire after being hit by a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG). The RPG had been fired at the vehicle by a Viet Cong (VC) patrol shortly after the start of Operation Pinnaroo. The blast had blown the driver of the APC, Lance-Corporal Paul ("Pommie") Atkinson, out of the driver's compartment, wounding him in the process. The APC's commander was Sergeant John Fogarty.


M113A1 APC Call sign 32A of  A Squadron, 3rd Cavalry Regiment moving through dense bush in the Long Green in the south of Phuoc Tuy Province. At left is the APC commander, Corporal G. ("Jock") Thompson, and at right the APC driver, Trooper (Tpr) R. G. ("Bob") Gillard. Tpr Gillard was later killed when the APC ran over a mine. The APC has been fitted with a T50 turret armed with twin 30 calibre machine guns.