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    Australians and the battle of Binh Ba , Vietnam

    I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food

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    The ARVN in Vietnam, was their performance misunderstood?



    The ARVN: Was their performance misunderstood? – Australia`s Vietnam War
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    The battle of Coral, the 141 NVA regiment account.

    bert Hall18 May 2018Articles, Australian Army, UncategorisedLeave a Comment
    By Ernie Chamberlain
    The 141st North Vietnamese Regiment History (1997) [1] relates that:
    On 12 May, we discovered a battalion of Royal Australian troops had deployed to South Sở Hội (six kilometres north of Tân Uyęn), and the Regiment was ordered to launch a night attack. The night was dark, and the regimental commander – Doăn Khiết, together with the battalion commanders and the reconnaissance element went to study the battlefield. On the way, they encountered commandos and interdicting artillery fire that blocked their approaches to the target. Political Officer Nguyễn Văn Nhật and Chief of Staff Hŕ Xuân Trường guided the troops to occupy the battlefield. At 0300 a.m., the 1st Battalion and the 16th 82mm Mortar Company were still far away and had not reached the battlefield in time, but the Regiment was determined to commence firing. At 4.30 a.m., the order was given to open fire, and all types of our firepower continuously fired upon the targets at an intense rate. The enemy – having just arrived and with their defences not yet complete, came under our heavy shelling. They abandoned our objective and fled helter-skelter. Immediately seizing the opportunity, our infantry sections – with overwhelming bravery, assaulted and wiped out the enemy. After 30 minutes of combat, we were completely in charge of the battlefield – and then swiftly withdrew our forces so that the enemy’s aircraft and artillery could not react in time. The battle concluded quickly. We wiped out an Australian battalion, captured a prisoner, seized eight weapons (including two heavy machine guns)[2], a 60mm mortar, and an 81mm mortar. … The battle was truly deserving of the award of the Liberation Military Exploits Medal 3rd Class (Huân Chương Quân công Giải phóng hạng 3).

    Battle of Coral/Sở Hội – 12/13 May 1968 (141st Regiment History – 1997)[3]
    The 141st Regiment History included a sketch map of the first Battle of Coral/Sở Hội on 12/13 May 1968. Throughout the War, the NVA/VC used “Warsaw Pact-style” map-marking symbols – with some Vietnamese variations. In the preceding sketch map, a single enemy (Australian) battalion headquarters is shown within the FSPB (ie a triangular flag “flying” to the left) – together with the enemy (Australian) artillery and mortar positions, and two medium tanks. In “red”, the headquarters of the 141st NVA Regiment is depicted in the bottom right corner. Its three battalion headquarters – 1, 2, and 3, are shown in “red” as triangular flags, “flying” to the right. This 141st NVA Regiment sketch also omits HQ 3RAR and 161 Battery RNZAA within the FSPB Coral perimeter, and does not show the 1RAR and 3RAR companies outside the perimeter. HQ 3RAR and its D Company were, in fact, located about “300 metres” west of HQ 1RAR and were “not subjected to any ground attack”.[4] In the 141st NVA Regiment diagram, barbed wire is indicated around the northern, eastern and southern perimeter of FSPB Coral on 13 May 1968. However, the Australian Army official history relates that on 12/13 May: “No claymore mines or barbed wire had been laid for the defence of the fire support base; there had been no time and, in any case, the wire had not arrived.” [5]





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    The Australian version of the battle of Coral


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    ARVN

    Good stuff Bob,

    as as often said , the first casualty of war is truth.
    we often had ARVN with us ,or rather near us ,and I did feel sorry for the poor buggers, despite the work AATTV did. We did “joke” about the enemy , worst was white mice, then yanks then ARVN , then MP , with the VC a distant last. Sick humour I know, but we had to find something to laugh about as i’m sure you well know.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hogarthde View Post
    Good stuff Bob,

    as as often said , the first casualty of war is truth.
    we often had ARVN with us ,or rather near us ,and I did feel sorry for the poor buggers, despite the work AATTV did. We did “joke” about the enemy , worst was white mice, then yanks then ARVN , then MP , with the VC a distant last. Sick humour I know, but we had to find something to laugh about as i’m sure you well know.
    Dark times produce dark humour. Most of our gun line support was for ARVN, with the US Marines a close second. We could listen to the radio traffic between the ship, the ARVN unit and the spotter aircraft whilst on the flying bridge. They copped a hiding up near the DMZ, that seemed to be the most active area at that time. I felt sorry for them too.
    I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food

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    Long Tan is in the news because of the movie, Danger Close. It seems we know exactly how many casualties we had, but numbers differ from the other side. Here are some numbers from the QM of the VC regiment, whose book was captured by 2RAR/NZ.


    The Battle of Long Tan: Việt Cộng ‘numbers’ – 275 Regiment ‘s ‘QM notebook’ – Australia`s Vietnam War
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    The RAN clearance diving team first deployment.

    Clearance Diving Team 3 – 1st Contingent – Australia`s Vietnam War
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