Luke Johnston
@vietnamheritage
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Luke Johnston commented on the post, The Tet Offensive in Ba Ria, Viet Nam 1968 5 years, 6 months ago
David I’m quite concerned that you so strongly dispute the presence of a well known airstrip so close to Ba Ria and Nui Dat. Please look at the link below and let me know if you want to continue this argument
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5smunysv1nossoz/Van%20Kiep%20aerial.pdf?dl=0
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Luke Johnston commented on the post, The Tet Offensive in Ba Ria, Viet Nam 1968 5 years, 6 months ago
Hi Ernie, I’d personally like to thank you for continually providing constructive and insightful input to the discussion around Tết in BR, 1968. Great work
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Luke Johnston commented on the post, The Tet Offensive in Ba Ria, Viet Nam 1968 5 years, 6 months ago
Decided to re-read the section on Tet in ‘When the scorpion stings’. One of the opening pages on Ba Ria notes that as 3Cav were transporting A Coy into Baria they noticed a great deal of air activity over the town, with F5 jets and gunships made strafing and bombing runs over the Baria
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Luke Johnston commented on the post, The Tet Offensive in Ba Ria, Viet Nam 1968 7 years, 11 months ago
Great insight guys, just incredible what this site is facilitating.
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Luke Johnston commented on the post, The Tet Offensive in Ba Ria, Viet Nam 1968 7 years, 11 months ago
Thanks Ern. Much appreciated. And agreed. I look forward to contributing what I can, encouraging others to do so, and seeing what comes up!
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Luke Johnston and
Peter Kimberley are now friends 8 years ago
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Luke Johnston commented on the post, The Tet Offensive in Ba Ria, Viet Nam 1968 8 years ago
Great to see it up. Thanks Peter
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Luke Johnston posted a new activity comment 8 years ago
Yeah that’s fine mate. I completely understand. I have my own datasets that i’ve converted for use over georeferenced topos and sat images on the fly (android). Just as people ask I collect more datapoints to add to it as necessary. I’ll keep on with the manual method it’s cool! Cheers
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Luke Johnston replied to the topic Ba ria TET Offensive 1968 in the forum General Discussion 8 years ago
David here’s something from OC A Coy on Tet in Ba Ria too (Video I uploaded) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYSYlNaIYzU
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Luke Johnston and
Derrill de Heer are now friends 8 years ago
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Luke Johnston and
Ern Marshall are now friends 8 years ago
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Luke Johnston posted a new activity comment 8 years ago
Out of interest, is it possible to extract data from the database or ‘request’ certain slices..or do you prefer to keep it tight? Either way understand reasoning as I work with sensitive data every day. Reason I ask is I’m now diong bits and pieces of research for 1ATF servicemen and / or family members and offering the chance to take them to sites of significance over there (or snap…Read More
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Luke Johnston posted a new activity comment 8 years ago
Hi guys, great to hear from you and see the fruits of all the hard work. it truly is a fantastic resource. Yeah I’ll get onto Laverack as I’m really nearing all I can ascertain from Alpha 3RAR first tour (as well as the context on infinite ranges of scales). Everything else is coming to order at the same time. yeah Amy i guessed as much, I’ve had to do similar for all my A/ 3RAR records,…Read More
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Luke Johnston replied to the topic 7RAR in Saigon during Tet Offensive in the forum General Discussion 8 years ago
you guys will have seen this image (half way down, click on the left hand side of the filmstrip’) there’s a member of 7RAR on a saigon rooftop during tet. Link: http://vietnam-war.commemoration.gov.au/tet-offensive/
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Luke Johnston replied to the topic Ba ria TET Offensive 1968 in the forum General Discussion 8 years ago
David just FYI if you ever have the time/inclination, the 3RAR CO Diaries hold a fair bit of info in the AA reports too (as well as some specifics on limited movements while mounted with 3Cav in the diary timeline). I must have a gander at the 3Cav diaries sometime. Cheers
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Luke Johnston posted an update 8 years ago
@bobhall Well done mate. This is fantastic. I presume Amy has weaved some incredible magic on the database. My apologies for being so slack on Lavarack data extraction.. i’ve had my hands incredibly full beginning not long after we met up. It’s still on the ‘to do list’ if it’s still something you’d like done!! Things settling down now. QUick question, have you guys allowed for the datum…Read More
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Luke Johnston and
Robert Hall are now friends 8 years ago
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Luke Johnston became a registered member 8 years ago