Major Peter Raymond Young, message to Major John Boyd Healy, Officer Commanding A Company 1 RAR, South Vietnam, 1965-1966 [recorded letter]

Accession Number S03711
Collection type Sound
Measurement 17 min 27 sec
Object type Recorded letter
Physical description 1/4 inch sound tape reel; RCA 15A-1.5; 3 3/4 ips/9.5 cm.s; half track mono; 3 inch
Maker Young, Peter
Date made 1965-1966
Access Open
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
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Description

Young records a letter to his friend Major Healy who is in Vietnam. Young speaks of John's wife June and his daughter; friends John Dermody and John Roe arriving in Vietnam soon; how he will be in Vietnam as Assistant Military Attache; John's casualty rate in Vietnam making a bit of noise here; trying to get June to Vietnam on an "indulgence package".

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