HMA Ships AITAPE and LADAVA, (patrol boats), navigated a record 497 miles on the Fly River, New Guinea. ...
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Australian Naval History on 15 December 1970
The following gallantry awards were announced for RAN personnel who served in the Helicopter Flight in Vietnam. DSC LCDR D. A. Farthing DFC LEUT P. L. Clark DFC LEUT R. ...
Australian Naval History on 11 December 1970
HMAS PERTH, (guided missile destroyer), shelled Viet Cong in the field, and destroyed a mobile wireless van. ...
Australian Naval History on 4 December 1970
There was an extraordinary act of flying skill by Lieutenant Buchanan, RAN, and his crew for which the Australian pilot was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. While engaged in the ...
Australian Naval History on 3 December 1970
The Australian supply ship JEPARIT arrived at Vung Tau, Vietnam, on her 33rd voyage. HMAS PERTH, (guided missile destroyer), provided supporting gunfire to the US 135th Assault Helicopter Company, when ...
Australian Naval History on 24 November 1970
HMAS Adroit on SAR duties in company with HMAS Aware assisted in an attempt to salvage a ditched helicopter from HMAS Albatross after a Westland Wessex HAS.31A N7-201 881 crashed ...
Australian Naval History on 23 November 1970
ADML Sir Victor Smith, OA, KBE, CB, DSC, RAN, was appointed Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee. ADML Smith was the first graduate of the Royal Australian Naval College ...
Australian Naval History on 15 November 1970
HMAS PERTH, (guided missile destroyer), engaged North Vietnamese guns in the hills around Da Nang, Vietnam. ...
Australian Naval History on 23 October 1970
HMAS PERTH, (guided missile destroyer), landed a US Commando unit in the southern area of the Demilitarised Zone in Vietnam, to ambush Viet Cong small craft ferrying mines to South ...
Australian Naval History on 8 October 1970
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 ...