HMAS PERTH, (guided missile destroyer), sank four and damaged four, enemy supply craft near Dong Hoi, Vietnam. Later, on the same day, PERTH fired on three barges alongside a pier at Song Giang, setting fire to the pier and one barge.
The RAN’s 135th Assault Helicopter Company, (LCDR. N. Ralph, RAN), made a successful withdrawal of the US 199th Light Infantry Brigade from a well defended Vietcong bunker position.