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Auteur(s) : Millie, David
Titre(s) : Team 19 in Vietnam [Texte imprimé] : an Australian soldier at war / David Millie ; foreword by General Gordon R. Sullivan, ...
Publication : Lexington (Ky.) : University Press of Kentucky, copyright 2013
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XV-411 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection : Foreign military studies
Lien à la collection : Foreign military studies
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 395-398. Index
Historical accounts and memoirs of the Vietnam War often ignore the participation
of nations other than Vietnam and the United States. As a result, few Americans realize
that several members of the Southeast Asian Treaty Organization (SEATO), including
Australia, allied with South Vietnam during the conflict. By the late 1960s, more
than eight thousand Australians were deployed in the region or supporting the forces
there. These soldiers had gained significant experience in jungle warfare and counterinsurgency
by working with the British in Malaya in the 1950s, which made them valuable partners
to the Americans and the South Vietnamese. David Millie was a member of the renowned
Australian Army Training Team Vietnam, the country's most highly decorated unit of
the war. In Team 19 in Vietnam, he offers an insightful account of his twelve-month
tour in Quang Tri Province--a crucial tactical site along the demilitarized zone and
North Vietnam's gateway to the South. Drawing from published and unpublished military
documents, Millie's personal diary, and the letters he wrote while deployed, this
firsthand narrative vividly demonstrates the importance of the region and the substantial
number of forces engaged there.Millie introduces readers to the daily routines, actions,
and disappointments of a field staff officer. In the midst of various cultural, political,
and economic challenges, he found himself among brothers in arms on a common mission.
During his yearlong tour, he worked with province senior advisors Colonel Harley F.
Mooney and Major John Shalikashvili, who would later become chairman of the U.S. Joint
Chiefs of Staff. Working with diverse groups of soldiers and civilians, Millie helped
conduct a number of operations, including missions against the Viet Cong infrastructure
and insurgents, pacification campaigns, and refugee resettlement projects. Few Australian
accounts of the Vietnam War exist, and Millie offers a rare glimpse of the year after
the Tet offensive, when Presidents Johnson and Nixon both made it clear that the United
States would withdraw its troops. This important memoir reveals that responsibility
for the catastrophe inflicted on Vietnamese civilians is shared by an international
community that failed to act effectively in the face of a crisis. -- Inside jacket
flaps
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Sullivan, Gordon R. (1937-....). Préfacier
Sujet(s) : Guerre du Vietnam (1961-1975) -- Participation australienne
Militaires australiens -- Vietnam -- 1945-1990
Genre ou forme : Récits personnels australiens
Indice(s) Dewey :
959.704 3 (23e éd.) = Histoire - Viêt-Nam - 1961-1975
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780813143262 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47031049n
Notice n° :
FRBNF47031049
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Leaving home for war, May 1968 ; The big picture, 1950-1968 ; Travel to and orientation
in Quang Tri, 14-24 May 1968 ; Australian Army advisors in the province, May 1968-April
1969 ; Counterinsurgency in Mai Linh sub-sector, May-August 1968 ; Pacification
in Mai Linh district, May-August 1968 ; With the Vietnamese people in Quang Tri,
May 1968-April 1969 ; Transition from district to province, September 1968 ; Sector
staff work : the oil and the glue, September-December 1968 ; Pacification campaigns,
strengthening the spine, 1968-1969 ; Operation Fisher, refugee relocation at Gia
Dang, September-December 1968 ; Contingency planning for Tet 1969, January-February
1969 ; Sector staff work : the oil and the glue, January-April 1969 ; Operation
Kangaroo, Cam Vu resettlement, December 1968-April 1969 ; Faith at work, May 1968-April
1969 ; Paris Peace Talks and ripple effects, May 1968-April 1969 ; Australian leaders
in South Vietnam, May 1968-April 1969 ; The shield in a limited war, May 1968-April
1969 ; Colonel Harley F. Mooney leads the way, August 1968-April 1969 ; The omega
and a new alpha, 1970-2012.
