Henry Alfred Gordon as a war correspondent attached to 3rd Battalion The Royal Australian Regiment (3 RAR), Korea 1950-1951, interviewed by Bill Fogarty

Gordon speaks of his family background; interest in journalism while still at school in Melbourne; journalistic experience with the Sydney Telegraph in the earlier years of the Second World War; volunteering for the Royal Australian Air Force later in the war; being selected for air crew but training discontinued as the need for more aircrew was reduced; employment in journalism with various Australian, as well as a Singaporean, newspaper companies in the post-war years to 1950; selection to be a war correspondent with three others with 3RAR, each representing a selection of Australian newspapers - Ronald Monson, Sydney Telegraph and Melbourne Argus, Alan Dowe, Sydney Sun and Melbourne Argus, Wilson Glasset, Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Argus, Harry Gordon, Sun Pictorial, Brisbane Courier Mail, Adelaide Advertiser, Perth Western Australian; the trials and tribulations of being inducted into 3RAR; accreditation; experience with American units in Korea ahead of 3RAR's deployment; particular actions to which 3RAR was committed and processes involved in preparing copy, as well as its transmission, back in Australia; comparisons of British and American forces; flying in USAF aircraft; visiting HMAS Bataan and No 77 (Fighter) Squadron RAAF; contacts with the Korean people and friendship developed with Captain Reg Saunders - Australia's first Aboriginal Army officer; his post-Korean war reflections on that war; his return to civilian journalism after 1951.