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Operation Ulmarra was a cordon and search operation of Phước Hải, a coastal township in the-then Phouc Toy province of South Vietnam.The photograph features Private Peter Capp (kneeling), Private Bob Fennell (leaning over, facing camera, with an ammunition belt for an M60 machine gun slung over his shoulder), Corporal Bob D'Arcy (partly obscured behind Fennell); Private Neal Hasted (centre, front), Private Ian Jury (partly obscured, centre, rear, holding rifle); Private Colin Barnett (front, right, M60 ammunition belt on back, back of head to camera), Lance Corporal Stan Whitford (partly obscured behind Barnett), and the helicopter marshal at right is Private John Raymond Gould.The troops are wearing ‘Patrol Order’ as the operation was a one-day Cordon and Search of Lang Phuoc Hai.
Corporal South Vietnam Private Phước Hải M60 machine gun Lance Corporal