Lieutenant Colonel James Curnow Hughes MC as the lieutenant colonel Commanding Officer 4th Battalion The Royal Australian Regiment/New Zealand (ANZAC), South Vietnam 1971, interviewed by Lieutenant Colonel Robin Morison
Accession Number: S01418
Description
Hughes speaks of the build-up of 4th Battalion The Royal Australian Regiment and its deployment to South Vietnam; Operation Hermit Park, 14 June-27 July 1971 and Operation Iron Fox, 28 July-5 August 1971, both astride the Phuoc Tuy-Long Khanh provincial border, NNW of the 1st Australian Task Force base at Nui Dat; other operations in which the battalion had contacts with the enemy.
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Interviewer/Recordist
Robin Frederick Morison (Rtd)
Physical Description
Brand: BASF LP 35
Carrier: 1/4 inch sound tape reel
Size: 5 inch
Speed: 1 7/8 ips/4.75 cm.s
Track: half track mono
Measurement
Duration: 2h 54' 0"
Date Made
16 November 1971
Credit Line
Official History Unit oral history program
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Copying not permitted
Copyright
Commonwealth of Australia copyright
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