Brigadier Ronald Laurence Hughes DSO as Commander 1st Australian Task Force, South Vietnam 1967-1968, interviewed by Major Alan Hinds

Accession Number S03635
Collection type Sound
Measurement 4 min 12 sec
Object type Oral history
Physical description 1/4 inch sound tape reel; KODAK; 3 3/4 ips/9.5 cm.s; mono; 7 inch
Maker Hughes, Ronald Laurence
Hinds, Allan Sydney Ford
Date made 10 October 1968
Access Open
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
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Description

Hughes speaks of his role in commanding 1st Australian Task Force operations, October 1967-October 1968, in South Vietnam; the enemy's tactics and weaponry; operations carried out in the northwest of Bien Hoa Province and the southeast of Binh Duong Province, April-June 1968; the morale of the troops in general.
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