Luke Johnston

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

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

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

Great insight guys, just incredible what this site is facilitating.

Thanks Ern. Much appreciated. And agreed. I look forward to contributing what I can, encouraging others to do so, and seeing what comes up!

Great to see it up. Thanks Peter

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

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

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