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A bloody job well done is excellent. It covers in great detail a most unusual Australian contribution to the Vietnam War and does so in detail and without gloss.’
– Dee Vee
It is impossible to do justice … to this excellent chronicle. The uninitiated will be shocked and awed by the collective experience of these men… The initiated – those who know what it means to deliver a “hot insertion” – will quietly mouth the words “we shall remember them”, and grievously turn their shoulders against the chill winds of an ignorant, indifferent nation.’
– Paul Ham, Official War Historian, Australian War Memorial
At the height of the Vietnam War, some 190 members for the Royal Australian Navy Fleet Air Arm were integrated into the US Army’s 135th Assault Helicopter Company, the first and only experimental military unit with Australian participation. These officers and sailors provided helicopter lift and gunship support to predominately US and Republic of Vietnam forces. In A Bloody Job Well Done these brave Australians share graphic accounts of their experiences, during a time where death and dismemberment was part of every day.
Dimensions: 225 x 170 mm
Pages: 464 pp
Paperback
Subject: Memoir
Publication date: September 2011
Editors: Bob Ray and Max Speedy
