The receptionist wouldn’t look at Dean, and that told him everything he needed to know before even walking into the office. It was…
By the winter of 1966, Fuji province had become the center of gravity for Australia’s war in Vietnam. It was not the most…
Firebase Coral Vietnam 1968. Australian special air service units were operating alongside American and South Vietnamese forces in the three core. Joint bases…
The laughter echoed across the airirstrip without restraint. A veteran American Green Beret captain stood watching from a short distance, arms folded, openly…
The most terrifying soldiers in the Vietnam War were not American. They did not arrive with roaring helicopters or waves of artillery. They…
Long been 1968. The wet season had turned the largest American base in Vietnam into a slurry of red mud, diesel fumes, and…
In the early hours of January 1969, a patrol from the Navy Seals stood at the edge of a jungle clearing in Fuktui…
December 19th, 1968. The long high mountains rise abruptly from the Vietnamese jungle. Their limestone ridges cutting through morning mist like the spine…
0200 hours arrived quietly, the kind of hour when wars only seemed to sleep. The flight line lay half lit and still UH1…
120 Australian soldiers walked into a command briefing at Long Bin in May of 1966. A United States Army colonel stood at the…