BIBLIOGRAPHY

Battle of Binh Ba (Operation HAMMER)

Books

M.R. Battle (Editor), The Year of the Tigers, The Second Tour of the 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, in , 1969 to 1970, The 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, Printcraft Press, 1970.

Stuart Rintoul, Ashes of Vietnam, Australian Voices, William Heinemann Australia, 1987

David Horner (Editor), Duty First, The Royal Australian Regiment in war and peace, Allen and Unwin, 1990 (First Edition)

J. Murphy, Harvest of fear, a history of Australia’s , Allen and Unwin, Sydney 1993

David Horner, The Gunners, A History of Australian Artillery, Allen & Unwin, 1995

Alexander M. Palmer, VIETNAM VETERANS: A Record of Service, A.M. Palmer, Perth, 1995 Alexander M. Palmer, VIETNAM VETERANS: Honours and Awards - Army, A.M. Palmer, Mosman Park, W.A., 1995

C.D. Coulthard-Clark, Where Australians fought, The Encyclopaedia of Australia’s Battles, Allen & Unwin, 1998

Gary McKay and Graeme Nicholas, Jungle Tracks: Australian Armour in Vietnam, Allen & Unwin, 2001 Paul Anderson, When the Scorpion Stings, The history of the 3rd Cavalry Regiment, Vietnam, 1965-72, Allen & Unwin, 2002

Gary McKay, Australia’s Battlefields in Vietnam, A traveller’s guide, Allen & Unwin, 2003

Brian Avery, We Too Were ANZACs, The Sixth Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment/NZ (ANZAC), South Vietnam 1969 to 1970, Slouch Hat Publications, 2004

Albert Palazzo, Australian Military Operations in Vietnam, Campaign Series -3, Army History Unit, Canberra, 2006

Paul Ham, VIETNAM, The Australian War, Harper Collins Publishers, 2007

Gary McKay, Going back, Australian veterans return to Vietnam, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 2007

Battle of Binh Ba Bibliography

- 2 - David Horner and Jean Bou (Editors), Duty First, A history of the Royal Australian Regiment, Allen and Unwin, 2008 (Second Edition)

Magazine and Newsletter articles on the Battle of Binh Ba

Raymond J. Gallacher, Binh Ba, Big contact tonight in the Binh Ba rubber! (two parts), published in Duty First, magazine of the Royal Australian Regiment Association, Volume 7 - No. 2 (Spring 2006) and Volume 8 No. 1 (Autumn 2007).

‘Operation Hammer, the Battle of Binh Ba – South Vietnam 6-8 June 1969’, in Ironsides, the magazine of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps, pp. 14-20, 1994 edition.

Tiger Tales, Newsletter of The 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, (5RAR) Association.

Websites

Anzac Day Commemoration Committee of QLD website: www.anzacday.org.au , Arthur Burke, "D Day 25 Years On - The Battle of Binh Ba" 5 RAR Association Website: http://www.5rar.asn.au

Unpublished Manuscripts

Bruce Cameron, Canister! On! FIRE! : Australian Tank Operations In Vietnam, soon to be published manuscript

David Wilkins, A Vietnam Diary

Unit War Diaries

AWM 95 Australian Army commanders’ diaries items: 1/4/156 Headquarters, 1 Australian Task Force, 1-30 June 1969. 2/2/5 B Squadron, 1 Armoured Regiment, 1-30 June 1969. 2/5/2 B Squadron, 3 Cavalry Regiment, 1-30 June 1969. 7/5/25 5 Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, 1-30 June 1969. 7/6/18 6 Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, 1-30 June 1969. AWM 117 [1] 5RAR Combat After Action Report 6/69 Operation Hammer.

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Vietnam War References

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