During a visit to the RAN guided missile destroyer HMAS Perth (II) D38 off the coast of Vietnam, ...

Accession Number NAVY18346
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker RAN Public Relations
Place made At sea, Vietnam
Date made c September-October 1968
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
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Description

During a visit to the RAN guided missile destroyer HMAS Perth (II) D38 off the coast of Vietnam, Sir John Wilton, Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee (left), visits the ship's company cafe with Captain David Willoughby Leach (front, right), Commanding Officer HMAS Perth. Major General Arthur Leslie MacDonald, Commander Australian Force Vietnam (AFV) (leaning on a table), looks with interest at the framed photograph of the renaming ceremony of HMAS Perth (I). An unidentified RAN officer is standing at the rear (right).

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