David Morgan

I asked where it was! your image still gives no reference to the town itself, and if Mr. Chamberlain is correct it was well away from OUR centre of action and therefore any aircraft seen flying over those coordinates had no impact on us, 1 1/2 Km is a long way on the ground.

But as you are now getting a bit ‘testy’ with the only actual person that was there I will leave you to it

Good Bye

To other readers here this map https://vietnam.unsw.adfa.edu.au/battlemap/?basemap=mapbox-terrain&layers=detail-all,contact-individual&timeline=1965-05-28,1971-11-01&at=10.500050790933983,107.17269709949866,16 provides excellent evidence as to what was experienced, the entire action over those two days was confined to the boundaries of the town and not exceeding a grid square south of the…

In reference to the ‘airfield’ Mr. Chamberlain, This site provides excellent maps of that time, I actually found that the Feb 1 action bears the name ‘Coburg’ never read that before.

But your airfield is elusive! is it near the stadium?

A link to the maps in question…Read More

I don’t think it is boring at all, just not relevant to what the lead article was written for, as I understand it, the actions of ATF, RAAC/ARA, in the Ba Ria conflict at the time of TET

Still it is not my article and if the author is happy with it then maybe all action at TET in SVN should be included.

He is a little exercise if you live in a house in a suburban environment, walk out onto the street in front of your house and try to describe the streets running parallel with yours, including the buildings on those streets, and then describe what you see a 1000 meters away.

Ba Ria is a flat township with a river running through it, I was surprised to see it claimed it had an airfield…Read More

” Initial reports, however, were sketchy and all requests for air support were denIed. At 0640 hours,”

I am not and never was critical of your writings, it is a good job for somebody that was not there and had no access to actual participants (many) in the conflict.

I and RAR have tried to get the conflict recognised in the form of a Battle Honour to no avail as it is now nearly half a century old.

Yes you are very correct!, each and every soldier in the conflict has a unique…Read More

Ask yourself this, as we were not yet in Ba ria who called for air support? maybe the town mayor wanting to remodel his town and reduced the population, I’m sure we had a reputation of bombing and strafing towns! Sounds rather stupid doesn’t it? you clearly were not there.

When the Scorpion Stings, the Ba Ria section was compiled fro only 3 interviews of actual 3 Troop members, I was…Read More

Yes well I was lead carrier what can I say!

There is a book written by Paul Anderson (deceased) called ‘When the Scorpion Stings’ I believe it is still available on Google around page 81 is all about Ba Ria but from the armoured perspective! you will see it is different from RAR.

Yes we mention Cobra support but for the extraction of damaged carriers.

You did a good job writing your article but like all war stories there are…Read More

And this is why further comments by me will be useless, it will get to a dispute who is right and wrong.

From my point of view being there, the CIA house was in the middle of town surrounded by our troops and ARVN troops it was a built up area, any fire from aircraft would have been disastrous to not only us but surrounding civilians, there were no ‘smart weapons’ back then. the same…Read More