Artillery Forward Observer at Nui Le

Robert Hall33 PAVN Regiment, Articles, Australian Army, NVA, Uncategorised, Vietnam War

By Greg Gilbert In September 1971 4 RAR/NZ (ANZAC) was engaged on Operation Ivanhoe in the north of Phước Tuy Province.  On the morning of 21 September D Company made contact with a bunker system in the vicinity of the Núi Lé feature.  We suffered casualties, including one Killed in Action (KIA) from the shrapnel from a Rocket Propelled Grenade … Read More

Nui Le: The last battle, 21 Sep 1971

Robert Hall33 PAVN Regiment, Articles, Australian Army, Uncategorised, Vietnam War11 Comments

By Gary McKay In late September 1971 I was a 23 year-old rifle platoon commander in Delta Company of the 4th Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment. We were on operations in the north of Phuoc Tuy Province searching for and hoping to destroy our enemy; the highly trained, strictly disciplined and deeply motivated soldiers from the North Vietnamese Army’s 33rd … Read More