Data extracted from John Perryman & Brett Mitchell, Australian Navy in Vietnam: Royal Australian Navy Operations 1965 – 1972, p.68-70. Reprinted with the kind permission of the Authors. Photographs from the Australian War Memorial Collection licensed under CC BY-NC Unit: Clearance Diving Team 3 Composition: LEUT C.J. Littleton, RAN POCD R.J. Cox POCD B.W. Wilson LSCD D.N. Rhook ABCD C.L. … Read More
Clearance Diving Team 3 – 3rd Contingent
Data extracted from John Perryman & Brett Mitchell, Australian Navy in Vietnam: Royal Australian Navy Operations 1965 – 1972, p.65-68. Reprinted with the kind permission of the Authors. Photographs from the Australian War Memorial Collection licensed under CC BY-NC Unit: Clearance Diving Team 3 Composition: LEUT W.D.H. Lees, RAN POCD W.H. Ellery LSCD D.W. Winckle ABCD J.R. Branch ABCD R.W. … Read More
Clearance Diving Team 3 – 2nd Contingent
Data extracted from John Perryman & Brett Mitchell, Australian Navy in Vietnam: Royal Australian Navy Operations 1965 – 1972, p.63-65. Reprinted by kind permission of the Authors. Unit: Clearance Diving Team 3 Composition: LEUT R.J. Burns, RAN POCD R.A. Donne LSCD R.A. Blake LSCD M.J. Currie ABCD D.C. Trompp ABCD P.J. Zegenhagen Deployment: August 1967 to February 1968 Lieutenant Robert … Read More
Clearance Diving Team 3 – 1st Contingent
Data extracted from John Perryman & Brett Mitchell, Australian Navy in Vietnam: Royal Australian Navy Operations 1965 – 1972. p. 60-63. Reprinted with the kind permission of the Authors. Photographs from the Australian War Memorial Collection licensed under CC BY-NC Unit: Clearance Diving Team 3 Composition: LEUT M. T. F. Shotter, RAN POCD B.V. Clark LSCD P. Boettcher ABCD P.C. … Read More
50th Anniversary: South Vietnam’s 1967 Presidential election
By Bob Hall and Amy Griffin Counterinsurgency campaigns are essentially politics with guns. Unlike conventional war, victory in counterinsurgency campaigns rarely comes through military action. Instead, although military action remains a key component of any campaign, counterinsurgencies tend to be resolved politically or diplomatically. This was well understood by the leaders of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) and the … Read More
Upcoming site features
Progress Update – 16 August 2017 Updates coming soon We’ll soon be updating the website with the addition of data about 2 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, Canberra bomber (B-57) strikes. During the war the United States military collected data on every air sortie conducted in the campaign. The data includes the date, time, launch airfield, target location, ordnance used, … Read More
Other RAN Deployments in Support of Australian Forces
Royal Australian Navy Fleet Band In 1970, the Fleet Bandmaster, Lieutenant W.W. Farrell, RAN, put forward a proposal that the RAN Fleet Band conduct a concert tour in South Vietnam during the forthcoming Far East deployment in HMAS Melbourne. Once the tour had been sanctioned by the Naval Board and COMAFC, the Naval Staff in Saigon, Commander I.W. Hall, RAN, … Read More
Keeping Troops in the Field Part 3: Resupply
Bob Hall and Andrew Ross The system and frequency of resupply affected the soldier’s load. The length of the gap between resupplies determined how many days of rations and water the soldier was required to carry. The ability to deliver an emergency resupply of ammunition when necessary could also influence the ammunition load the soldier carried. Background Counterinsurgency operations in … Read More
Farewell Jim Hughes, Commanding Officer 4RAR/NZ (ANZAC)
By Greg Dodds We buried Jim Hughes last month. Sunny Jim, a man welcome at any Diggers’ booze up and the scourge of any flaky officer. The Colonel who took 4RAR/NZ (ANZAC) to Vietnam in 1971 and who came within inches of losing an entire company of 120 men to the dreaded 33 Regiment of the North Vietnamese Army (NVA). … Read More
Australians Missing in Action – Vietnam
At the end of the Vietnam War six Australian servicemen (4 Army and 2 Air Force) were still listed as “Missing in Action”.