Ern Marshall
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Robert Hall wrote a new post, Clearance Diving Team 3 – 4th Contingent 6 years, 6 months ago
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 Au […]
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Robert Hall wrote a new post, Clearance Diving Team 3 – 3rd Contingent 6 years, 6 months ago
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 A […]
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Robert Hall wrote a new post, Clearance Diving Team 3 – 2nd Contingent 6 years, 6 months ago
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 […]
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Robert Hall wrote a new post, Clearance Diving Team 3 – 1st Contingent 6 years, 6 months ago
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 […]
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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, […]
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Robert Hall wrote a new post, Upcoming site features 6 years, 8 months ago
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 […]
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Peter Kimberley wrote a new post, V Company and the Captured Car 6 years, 9 months ago
By Noel Hains
In 1968-69, Victor Company (and W Company), Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment was attached to 4RAR creating 4RAR/NZ (ANZAC). While on Operation Capital II near the Courtenay Rubber Plantation […]
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Peter Kimberley wrote a new post, 2 Squadron RAAF Canberra Bombers in Vietnam 6 years, 9 months ago
by Lance Halvorson
No 2 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, deployed from Butterworth, Malaysia to Phan Rang air base, 35 kilometres south of Cam Ranh Bay, a large USAF base in the far east of South Vietnam, […]
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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 […] -
Peter Kimberley wrote a new post, Naval Operations in Vietnam 6 years, 9 months ago
Naval Operations in Vietnam
By Jozef Straczek, originally published at http://www.navy.gov.au/history/feature-histories/naval-operations-vietnam
Between 1965 and 1972 elements of […]
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Robert Hall wrote a new post, Keeping Troops in the Field Part 3: Resupply 7 years, 3 months ago
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 ca […]
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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 w […]
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Robert Hall wrote a new post, Australians Missing in Action – Vietnam 7 years, 4 months ago
Reproduced with the permission of Army News, Department of Defence
At the end of the Vietnam War six Australian servicemen (4 Army and 2 Air Force) were still listed as “Missing in Action”. Between 2007 and 200 […]
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Robert Hall wrote a new post, About the 1 RAR Battalion Group Data 7 years, 4 months ago
Bob Hall, Andrew Ross and Derrill de Heer
Background
This website contains data relating to the 1 RAR battalion group tour of duty in Vietnam from May 1965 to June 1966. Data relating to 1 RAR’s second tour as p […] -
Robert Hall wrote a new post, Keeping the Troops in the Field. Part 1: Rations 7 years, 4 months ago
Bob Hall and Andrew Ross
In any campaign, rations form a significant component of the dismounted soldier’s load. However, in counterinsurgency campaigns in a jungle environment, rations and water can become a v […]
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Bob Hall and Andrew Ross
Requirement
Dismounted soldiers require a safe and adequate supply of water to sustain them in the field. The amount of water thought to be required by a soldier on operations in […] -
Peter Kimberley wrote a new post, December 2016 Update 7 years, 4 months ago
Over the past few months, we’ve been working on a number of improvements and new features to the Battle Map. This is a significant update that provides new ways of finding and exploring units and adds new w […]
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Peter Kimberley wrote a new post, 1 RAR data, maps and more 7 years, 10 months ago
We’re excited to report that the Australia’s Vietnam War Battle Map has been updated.
New FeaturesOver 500 records from 1st Royal Australian Regiment (1 RAR) Battalion Group operations have been ad […]
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Peter Kimberley wrote a new post, DVA funding secured 7 years, 10 months ago
Funding secured
We’re pleased to announce that the Department of Veterans’ Affairs has awarded us a grant under the Commonwealth Government’s Saluting Their Service Major Commemorative Grants Program, to continu […] -
Derrill de Heer's profile was updated 8 years, 2 months ago
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