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Gunners of 103rd Battery, 1st Field Regiment, RAA, paraded for the last time at Nui Dat to be farewelled and presented with regimental ties by the CO, Lieutenant Colonel D Begg. Meanwhile, troops of the 5th Battalion at Luscombe Field boarded US 'Chinook' helicopters which were operating a continuous shuttle service between the Australian Task Force, Luscombe filed and HMAS Sydney, anchored off Vung Tau.
Australian troops who have spent the last 12 months in Vietnam are on their way home. Gunners of 1st Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery, paraded for the last time at Nui Dat to be farewelled a
More than 500 members of the 7th Battalion arrived in South Vietnam aboard the troop-carrier, HMAS Sydney. The Sydney anchored off Vung Tau and the United States Army Chinook helicopters lifted the t
Troops of 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, this week boarded HMAS Sydney for their return from Vietnam. A year of continuous operations against the Viet Cong behind them, 7th Battalion ve
On his way to visit Australia the Commanding General of the United States Continental Command General Paul L Freeman Junior, paid a flying visit to Vietnam where he met the Commander of the 1st Austra
The largest weapons around the Australian Task Force area at Nui Dat are American 155mm self propelled guns. Six of them which form a battery are part of the task force artillery support and come und
After 12 months in command of the 1st Australian Task Force in Vietnam, Brigadier Ron Hughes of Stafford Heights, Qld, farewelled by his senior staff officers of the Task Force, flew from Nui Dat for
