I knew a Fishing Rod Maker/Weaver who started his military Career as a Sniper in Korea. He was friends with Rumsfeld later a SEC of Defense for the US. While there he decided he wanted to fly so he tranferred to Army Air Corp. His name was Art Durham and become very good at it. He was sent by our country to places like Sweden to teach Helicopter Tactics. He was asked by Schwarzkopf to come out of retirement to give his expertise for the First Gulf War. Now about Viet Nam. There was a valley that the Australians were encamped in. Art was dating one of the Female officers that he later married and settled in Texas. He said there was a MIG that regularly strafed the Australians in the valley so he decide to try to take it out. He had his Helicopter at the mouth of the valley waiting. He knew about how long it took to exit the valley after strafing the Australians and at the right time he started shooting rockets across the mouth of the valley and as history tells us he did hit the MIG, shooting it down. He said a Russian pilot was flying the MiG because he had the shoulder boards, Russian. That MiG I am told now is in a museum in Australia. Just sayin THE REST OF THE STORY, KERRY

I knew a Fishing Rod Maker/Weaver who started his military Career as a Sniper in Korea. He was friends with Rumsfeld later a SEC of Defense for the US. While there he decided he wanted to fly so he transferred to Army Air Corp. His name was Art Durham and became very good at it. He was sent by our country to places like Sweden to teach Helicopter Tactics. He was asked by Schwarzkopf to come out of retirement to give his expertise for the First Gulf War. Now about Viet Nam. There was a valley that the Australians were encamped in. Art was dating one of the Female officers that he later married and settled in Texas. He said there was a MIG that regularly strafed the Australians in the valley so he decide to try to take it out. He had his Helicopter at the mouth of the valley waiting. He knew about how long it took to exit the valley after strafing the Australians and at the right time he started shooting rockets across the mouth of the valley and as history tells us he did hit the MIG, shooting it down. He said a Russian pilot was flying the MiG because he had the shoulder boards, Russian. That MiG I am told now is in a museum in Australia. Because of Art's flying ability he was asked by Rumsfeld to do research on the OSPREY that were crashing with high frequency, also killing a lot of Marines too. He alerted me to a photo that showed Art flying the Osprey and said he was able to control it because he shut off the computer and flew it manually. He told Rumsfeld that it wasn't ready yet and that they were fudging maintenance records and other stuff! He said he was a Mustang and got his 3rd star. If any of you have a copy of McClain's encyclopedia of fishing, I have a copy, look up the section on Sharks and you will see a picture of ART as a young man holding over the side of a boat the front half of a fish and a Great White below with it's mouth open wanting the rest of the fish. The Great White then started biting knocking the OUT-DRIVE and his friends said J,,,, Cr,,,st give it the fish! Just sayin, THE REST OF THE STORY, KERRY

Australian women and the Vietnam War
A government policy against the expansion of communism in Asia resulted in Australia sending training advisers to South Vietnam in 1962. Australian combat troops were sent to Vietnam in 1965. Australia included conscripts in the troop numbers in 1966. A gradual withdrawal of Australian troops began in 1969, with the last troops leaving Vietnam in 1973.

About 210 Australian women went to Vietnam as civilian nurses, as part of volunteer medical teams. Forty-three Australian Army nurses served in Vietnam between 1966 and 1973. Service nurses also assisted in the evacuation of casualties back to Australia.

Five hundred and twenty one Australian service personnel are listed as having died during the Vietnam War. Barbara Black, an Australian nurse, was one of them.