An informal group in the Long Tan rubber plantation discussing the Long Tan battle with ...

Place Asia: Vietnam, Phuoc Tuy Province, Long Tan
Accession Number P01509.006
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Wood, Stuart
Place made Vietnam: Phuoc Tuy Province, Long Tan
Date made 17 June 1988
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
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Description

An informal group in the Long Tan rubber plantation discussing the Long Tan battle with Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Van Kiem (Commander of D445 Battalion at the Long Tan Battle), Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Duc Thu (later commander of D445 Battalion and Company Commander at the Long Tan Battle - current president of the Fatherland Front), and Long Dat district committee, including other Long Tan veterans. Left to right: in uniform, Major Minh (present Commander of D445 Battalion); Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Duc Thu, Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Van Kiem, a member of the Long Dat district committee, Mr Tran Tan Huy (in white shirt) Chairman Long Dat district committee, Ian McNeill (Official History Unit, Australian War Memorial) (obscured), unidentified, interpreter Nguyen Van Niem (partly obscured), photographer Stuart Wood (right foreground). (A colour version is held as P01293.008).