103 Field Battery RAA Operation Crowsnest
Gunners of 103 Field Battery are setting up a forward gun position in the Duc Thanh District in support of 5RAR.
[1] On the morning, October 2nd, 1966, C Company went forward to search the village of Ngai Giao which spread out along Route 2 in several clusters over a mile and a half of the road.
Operation Crowsnest was the first thrust by allied or Government troops into this area for several years.
It was sufficient that the people of Ngai Giao had seen that we had the power to operate through their locality and that
the Viet Cong could do little about the security of their supplies in an area which there had never before been any doubt of control by the Viet Cong. These factors are not decisive in a military struggle, but they may be in a political one.
Ref:[1] O'Neill, Robert J. (1995) Vietnam Task, 2nd. Ed. ANU Press, Canberra. p/115.