Canister on Fire: Australian Tank Operations in the Vietnam Volume Two
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作者Bruce Cameron
出版社Big Sky
ISBN9781921941993
出版时间2016
装帧精装
页数388页
上书时间2024-09-18
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Canister on Fire: Australian Tank Operations in the Vietnam Two Volume 精装 – 2016年 3月 31日
作者 Bruce Cameron (Author)
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出版社 : Big Sky Publishing (2016年 3月 31日)
语言 : 英语
精装 : 388页
ISBN-10 : 1921941995
ISBN-13 : 978-1921941993
商品重量 : 1.07 Kilograms
尺寸 : 16 x 2.9 x 23.7 cm
作者简介
Bruce Cameron served in the Australian Regular Army for 19 years. After commanding the last troop of tanks in action in Vietnam, his career saw him attend the UK’s Long Armour Infantry Course and Royal Military College of Science, as well as the Australian Command and Staff College. His last appointment involved responsibility for developing the Army’s future ground mobility requirements. He left the Army in 1987 to take up a position with the Office of Defence Production.
Canister! On! Fire! tells the remarkable, but little known story of Australian tanks in the Vietnam War. Based on twelve years of research, including personal letters and diaries, extensive searches of official records and numerous interviews, this book brings to life a previously little-known aspect of the conflict. It is the story of a select group of soldiers, both regular and conscript, serving their country against all odds. The 53 ton Centurion tanks were not only involved in intense fighting in conjunction with infantry to capture enemy defenses and defeat attacks, but also fought their own battles against enemy mines, ambushes, and an unforgiving terrain and climate. This book takes the reader inside the tanks to share the experiences of their crews in action in the jungle. We see the gunner, trying to survive the heat inside the turret, while identifying designated targets; the operator trying to maintain communications, while keeping the guns loaded; the driver, trying to see his way forward, while keeping his head down; and the commander, trying to locate enemy positions, while directing his driver and giving fire orders to his gunner. The account also reveals how the mechanics beat overwhelming challenges to maintain the twenty-year-old tanks, while the field engineers risked their lives protecting them against mines.
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