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E-book Vietnam Task : The 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, 1966–67

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Every man sees a war in which he fights from two points of view. The one is his own, his view of his personal life in relation to the harsh environment of battle; the other is the outlook of his unit which makes him share closely the corporate experience of this unit and gives that unit an individual entity and character with its own peculiar difficulties and joys, its own failures and successes. The extent to which either of these two viewpoints dominates a man’s thinking depends on his closeness to the direction of his unit. A forward scout carrying a rifle on a jungle track knowing little more than his activities for that day has little to divert his attention from his immediate personal environment, while a commander is so deeply involved with the fate of his unit that he tends to identify almost completely with it.Somewhere in between are most soldiers. As a member of the Battalion Headquarters, I saw the war largely in terms of the battalion as a whole and I was able to experience our first operation from the point of view of a rifle company as its second-in-command. At the same time I have tried to give an impression of what it was like from an individual standpoint to participate in this war.The war of this book is not the war of the teach-ins and the abstract debates nor is it the war of many journalists. It is the story of eight hundred men who landed from helicopters at Nui Dat on May 24, 1966, and who for the following year took part in the restoration of South Vietnamese Government control to the people of Phuoc Tuy.I began writing this account on May 24, 1966, the first day of our first operation, and most of the descriptions of actions and places are unchanged from what I wrote in a small, green, loose leaf note book at the time of their occurrence. These pages were mailed to my wife every few days for her information, editing and typing, and to preserve them from the monsoon rains. During my leave after returning from Vietnam these accounts were woven together to make the book.There are many people whom I must thank for their assistance. Most of them are the members of the Fifth Battalion who provided me with information and encouragement to keep writing at times when I felt more like forgetting the whole project. I am grateful to those who have helped with the preparation of the diagrams, to the Director of Army Public Relations, to Captain H. A. D. White and to Colin Bruce for permission to publish their photographs. Finally I must thank my wife, Sally, for her perseverance and for the quality of her criticism of the draft, often in the face of stubborn defence by a husband who tended to hold each postern as if it were his keep.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

994 ONE v

Penerbit

Australia : ANU Press., 2022

Deskripsi Fisik

313 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781760465384

Klasifikasi

994

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

History of Australia

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