Accession Number | S03711 |
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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![]() |
Copying Provisions | Copyright restrictions apply. Only personal, non-commercial, research and study use permitted. Permission of copyright holder required for any commercial use and/or reproduction. |
Major Peter Raymond Young, message to Major John Boyd Healy, Officer Commanding A Company 1 RAR, South Vietnam, 1965-1966 [recorded letter]
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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Major Peter Raymond Young, message to Major John Boyd Healy, Officer Commanding A Company 1 RAR, South Vietnam, 1965-1966 [recorded letter]
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