Peter Kimberley

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

By Andrew Ross

On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the creation of the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) in South Vietnam, it is still widely believed that despite winning some memorable battles, the […]

Launch address by Bob Hall, 30 September 2015

I’d like to begin by expressing my thanks to my fellow authors:

First, Andrew Ross. Andrew did a magnificent job of compiling the database that forms the b […]

Bob Hall, Andrew Ross and Derrill de Heer

When a 1ATF infantry patrol had a contact with the enemy, and small arms fire was exchanged, the patrol commander reported ‘Contact! Wait, out’ over the company rad […]

Bob Hall, Andrew Ross, Derrill de Heer and Amy Griffin
Background
In 2009 Vietnam assisted Australia to find and repatriate the remains of six Australians still listed as missing in action (MIA) from the Vietnam […]