The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
An Thanh, South Vietnam. March 1970. This home in a tiny hamlet, was the scene of a reunion between a former Viet Cong woman and her family. Le Thi Hoa (?Tran Thi Sinh) rallied to the South Vietnamese Government under the Chieu Hoi or Open Arms programme. Private Dave Everitt of Adelaide, SA, Sergeant Russell Tetlow of Sydney, NSW, and a Vietnamese sergeant escorted the woman back to meet her family for the first time in five years.
An Thanh, South Vietnam. March 1970. Private Dave Everitt of Adelaide, SA, stood guard outside as Le Thi Hoa (?Tran Thi Sinh), a 22 year old woman, who had rallied to the South Vietnamese Government u
Nui Dat, South Vietnam. March 1970. Sergeant Russell Tetlow of Sydney, NSW, with Private Dave Everitt of Adelaide, SA, and a Vietnamese sergeant, accompanied a former Viet Cong woman back to her home
Nui Dat, South Vietnam. March 1970. Le Thi Hoa (?Tran Thi Sinh) rallied to the South Vietnamese Government under the Chieu Hoi or Open Arms programme after five years as a cook with the Viet Cong (VC)
English Translation: Front: I am Hoi Chanh TRAN THI SINH Back: To my friends in the Communist Army! I am TRAN-THI-SINH of the Ordinance Section. I rallied on the 14 April 1970 at Hoa Long. I was we
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. February 1971. Seven years have passed since this elderly Vietnamese woman last saw her only daughter. At the age of seventeen, her daughter ran off to join the Viet
South Vietnam. February 1971. Attending a lecture is Vo Thi Que (right), a former Viet Cong worker who surrendered to become a Hoi Chanh at the Chieu Hoi Centre in Phuoc Tuy Province. During her sixty
