New M113 Mine Roller Armored Personnel Carrier 'Bukoo Boom-Boom'

HMAPC George 'Bukoo Boom-Boom' used yesteryear the Engineers to clear mines inward the Dat Do area. Photo yesteryear Noel Keen [1970]

They'd campaign behind 1 some other amongst those rollers. H5N1 vast bulk of mines inward Vietnam were AP mines. Even ones used to terminate vehicles (NVA together with VC used what was available together with they did non accept a nearly meaning total of AT mines)

HMAPC Flint was fully restored after the state of war together with is inward the RAE Museum.

Three APC's were used inward mine clearance 'Flint', 'George' together with 'Steele'. They had a blast shield fitted to the bring upward together with a smash was hung from the correct manus side amongst tyres on it.

Flint together with Steel were named inward laurels of  one-time engineering luminaries
George was named for Captain George who was inward accuse of mine clearing operations.

In June 1966 the Australian authorities sent the 1st Australian Task Force to back upward the American state of war inward Vietnam. They were located inward a prophylactic plantation at Nui Dat inward the middle of Phuoc Tuy say (approximately sixty kilometres South - East of Saigon). 1 ATF was instructed yesteryear the Americans to “pacify” the province.

Six months afterwards the newly appointed Task Force commander, Brigadier Stuart Graham decided to put a barrier struggle together with minefield from Dat Do hamlet (next to Nui Dat plantation) southwards to the coast eleven kilometres away. Graham believed that the minefield would divide the people inward the heavily populated South - West from the enemy inward the North together with East. It would likewise loose to a greater extent than troops to deport Search together with Destroy missions that was the American strategy at the time. Graham chose to put the minefield against the advice of his senior advisers, including his Combat Engineering Specialist.

The minefield was eleven kilometres long, 100 metres broad together with consisted of over 20,000 M16 “Jumping Jack” mines, amongst roughly 12,000 of these fitted amongst anti elevator devices (hand grenades). Either side of the minefield was a barbed wire fence. While laying the minefield several Australian soldiers were killed together with to a greater extent than were wounded equally the mines detonated during the laying process. One of the basic tenets of state of war machine mine laying is to ensure the minefield is covered yesteryear observation together with roofing burn inward the lawsuit of enemy incursion. Neither of these rules was followed, nor were at that topographic point whatever plans for the removal of the mines at a afterwards date.

After an initial stream of several months exploring the minefield at night, together with losing over thirty soldiers the Viet Cong eventually devised a method of safely lifting the mines together with defeating the anti elevator device. It has been estimated that over 3000 mines were removed together with afterwards used against Australian patrols amongst devastating together with fatal effect. In fact the stolen mines were the source of nigh of the Australian casualties from that time.

Brigadier Graham returned to Commonwealth of Australia together with was promoted!!!!!!!!!!!

After much procrastination together with a ascent decease terms from the mines it was decided to take away the mines. The Australians had had virtually no sense of clearing mines

The 1st Field Squadron of the Royal Australian Engineers was given the task.

They together with hence modified 3 M113’s together with called them HMAPC FLINT, STEEL together with GEORGE. The physical care for was to scroll the tires over the mines at a ready speed where the exploding mines would detonate at the bring upward of the vehicles amongst the add together on armor plate absorbing alone modest fry shrapnel damage.

H5N1 huge expose of M113 Armored Personnel Carrier variants accept been created, ranging from infantry carriers to nuclear missile carriers. The M113 armored personnel carrier has instruct 1 of the nigh prolific armored vehicles of the minute one-half of the 20th century

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