Major General Ronald Laurence Hughes, was a senior infantry officer in the Australian Army, seeing service during the Second World War, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Joining the Australian Army
Brigadier Hughes with Paul Hasluck, the Minister for External Affairs, in South Vietnam in 1967
The Battle of Coral–Balmoral was a series of actions fought during the Vietnam War between the 1st Australian Task Force and the North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam 7th Division and Viet Cong Ma
South Vietnamese civilians sort through the ruins of their homes in Cholon, the heavily damaged Chinese section of Saigon following the Tet Offensive.
PAVN troops during the war
A US Army CH-47 Chinook at FSB Coral, 12 May 1968
A Canberra bomber from No. 2 Squadron RAAF operating over South Vietnam