The guided missile destroyer HMAS PERTH, (CAPT I. M. Burnside, RAN), sank two Viet Cong ammunition sampans moving into the demilitarised zone in Vietnam. Later in the day PERTH’S guns knocked out an enemy 175mm rocket emplacement.
Australian Naval History on 8 October 1970
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