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The W3 mortar team returned to Nui Dat on 29 August and at the request of 3rd Cavalry were deployed the next day with them and a troop of the Australian tanks, engineers from 1 Field Squadron, and 1 ATF HQ D&E Platoon on Operation Massey Harris, a food denial program conducted in the area of Bình Châu along the western border of Phuoc Tuy and ...
I Field Force, Vietnam was a corps-level command of the United States Army during the Vietnam War.Activated on 15 March 1966, it was the successor to Task Force Alpha, a provisional corps command created 1 August 1965 (renamed Field Force Vietnam on 25 September) for temporary control of activities of U.S. Army ground combat units arriving in Vietnam. [1]
102nd Field Battery, Royal Australian Artillery (1968–69) 104th Field Battery, Royal Australian Artillery (1968–69 and 1971) 131st Divisional Locating Battery, Royal Australian Artillery (1966–71) Engineers: [10] 1st Field Squadron (April 1966 – November 1971) 21st Engineer Support Troop (April 1966 – December 1971) Aviation: [5] [12]
Luscombe Airfield or Nui Dat Camp was an airfield at Nui Dat, Phước Tuy province, South Vietnam (now in Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, Vietnam). The airfield was built by 1 Field Squadron, Royal Australian Engineers for the 1st Australian Task Force at Nui Dat.
The 1st Division of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN)—the army of the nation state of South Vietnam that existed from 1955 to 1975—was part of the I Corps that oversaw the northernmost region of South Vietnam, the centre of Vietnam. The 1st Division was based in Huế, the old imperial city and one of two major cities in the region ...
The two 1 ATF infantry battalions were supported by their two artillery batteries - one Australian and one New Zealand, a squadron of armoured personnel carriers from 3 Cavalry Regiment (A Squadron), 1 Field Squadron Royal Australian Engineers and 161 Independent Reconnaissance Flight Army Aviation. 3 RAR was replaced by 1 RAR on 3 May.
[1] 1 Field Squadron, draws lineage from 1 Field Company that was raised as part of the First Australian Imperial Force during World War I. [2] The regiment moved from Sydney in late 1999 to Robertson Barracks, Darwin. 2 Troop, 1 Field Squadron was deployed to East Timor during this time as part of INTERFET. In April 2000, 1 Troop, 1 Field ...
The 1st Australian Task Force (1 ATF) was a brigade-sized formation which commanded Australian and New Zealand Army units deployed to South Vietnam between 1966 and 1972. 1 ATF was based in a rubber plantation at Nui Dat, 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) north of Bà Rịa in Phuoc Tuy Province and consisted of two and later three infantry battalions, with armour, aviation, engineers and artillery support.