Robert Michael Keep as the Captain General Staff Officer Grade 3 (Intelligence) Headquarters 1st Australian Task Force, South Vietnam 1966, interviewed by Colonel David Chinn MBE (Rtd)

Place Asia: Vietnam
Accession Number S00700
Collection type Sound
Object type Oral history
Physical description Tape 5" (Brand Unknown)
Maker Keep, Robert Michael
Chinn, David Alexander
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney, Kensington
Date made 15 March 1990
Access Open
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
Creative Commons License This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
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.
Source credit to Official History Unit oral history program
Description

Captain Robert Keep interviewed about his experiences in the Vietnam War.

Interview topics include: previous intelligence staff experience; intelligence indications of enemy action prior to the battle of Long Tan; tasking of SAS patrols to check possible enemy threats to 1ATF Base; the 'intelligence problem' affecting 1ATF generally.