Ben Tranh District, South Vietnam. June 1970. Chief Australian adviser in the Delta region, Major ...

Accession Number WAR/70/0406/VN
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Ward, Peter Anthony
Date made 1970
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Ben Tranh District, South Vietnam. June 1970. Chief Australian adviser in the Delta region, Major John Browne of Macquarie, ACT (right rear), accompanied a group of high ranking Americans who inspected the work of the Night Operations Advisory Team (NOAT), with Regional Force Company 203. The NOAT is a team of Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV) advisers who have taken on a pilot scheme to retrain Regional Forces in night ambush against Viet Cong. Seated in the centre is General W. B. Rosson, the Deputy Commander of the United States Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, studying diagrams of the Company's camp.