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Published by Moana Press, Tauranga, NZ, 1988
ISBN 10: 0908705352ISBN 13: 9780908705351
Seller: Lawrence Jones Books, Ashmore, QLD, Australia
Book First Edition
Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 151pp, bibliogaphy, nominal roll, bw & col ills. Pictorial card. Prev owner name on front blank, slight rippling to first few pages. Size: Oblong 12mo.
Published by Moana Press, Tauranga, 1988
ISBN 10: 0908705352ISBN 13: 9780908705351
Seller: The Secret Bookshop, Tararua, New Zealand
Book Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. This clean copy is signed by the author. The jacket hasrepaired closed tears using archival tape. The jacket will be placed in an archival sleeve before dispatch. The detailed and illustrated history of 161 Battery, Royal New Zealand Artillery in South Vietnam 1965 ? 1971. In June 1964 the New Zealand Government sent a detachment of Royal New Zealand Engineers to assist the United States forces in defending the Republic of South Vietnam from invasion by the North. The Engineers were replaced in June 1965 by 161 Battery, RNZA. Other military units were to follow and 161 Bty served with Royal Australian Artillery field regiments, usually as part of the 1st Australian Task Force in support of Australian and New Zealand infantry units. The battery left Vietnam in May 1971 after providing virtually continuous fire support to 1 ATF components and other friendly forces for six years. Approximately 750 members of 161 Bty served in Vietnam after training at 161 Battery Depot. Tours of duty were 12 months with reinforcements being rotated through the battery each month. Initially, the battery was equipped with four 105mm L5 pack howitzers, but this was later increased to six. These pieces were considered ideal for the current mobile type of operations because they could be lifted by the helicopters which were then available and were needed only for short periods in each fire base. Later operations required sustained fire for longer periods, and the L5s were replaced in 1967 with 105mm M2A2 howitzers which were lifted by the larger twin-rotor CH47 Chinook helicopter. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Moana Press, Tauranga And Wellington, 1988
ISBN 10: 0908705352ISBN 13: 9780908705351
Seller: Archway Books, Mana, New Zealand
Book First Edition
Papered Boards. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 20.5x24.5cm landscape, 152 pp, b&w and colour photo illus in text, d/w - laminated in plastic. VG in tidy, but laminated d/w.