By Hector Donohue The Swimmer Sapper Threat The significant threat posed by swimmer sappers in Vietnam was accentuated on 1 November 1968 when USS Westchester County (LST-1167), a 115m tank landing ship, was attacked, resulting in the US Navy’s greatest single-incident combat loss of life during the entire Vietnam War. The ship had resumed duty with the Mobile Riverine Forces … Read More
Clearance Diving Team 3 – 8th Contingent
Data extracted from John Perryman & Brett Mitchell, Australian Navy in Vietnam: Royal Australian Navy Operations 1965 – 1972, p.80-83. 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 E.W. Linton, BEM, RAN CPOCD J.J. Gilchrist POCD P.C. Narramore ABCD L.J. Digney ABCD … Read More
Clearance Diving Team 3 – 7th Contingent
Data extracted from John Perryman & Brett Mitchell, Australian Navy in Vietnam: Royal Australian Navy Operations 1965 – 1972, p.76-80. 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 R.S. Blue, RAN CPOCD J. F. C. Dollar POCD J.W. Kershler LSCD R.L. Steer … Read More
Clearance Diving Team 3 – 6th Contingent
Data extracted from John Perryman & Brett Mitchell, Australian Navy in Vietnam: Royal Australian Navy Operations 1965 – 1972, p.73-76. 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 A. Donald, RAN POCD B.J. Bailey POCD J.W. Thompson LSCD B.J. Bullock ABCD … Read More
Clearance Diving Team 3 – 5th Contingent
Data extracted from John Perryman & Brett Mitchell, Australian Navy in Vietnam: Royal Australian Navy Operations 1965 – 1972, p.70-73. 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 A.A. Davis, RAN CPOCD A.V. Rashleigh POCD J.R. Brumley ABCD M.H. Ey ABCD J.L. … Read More
Clearance Diving Team 3 – 4th Contingent
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
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
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