HMAS HOBART, (guided missile destroyer), provided support fire to a helicopter landing by the US 1st Marine Division, north of Da Nang, Vietnam. The object of the assault was to recover 200 buffaloes captured by the Viet Cong from local villagers.
Australian Naval History on 4 August 1968
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