This Part lists audio-visual sources that require a VHS, ¾” Umatic or Beta tape player to review. Audio–only may be recorded on audiocassette or even reel to reel. Some of these products may also be digitised (playable on any DVD player/computer), as such products are increasingly being converted due to the obsolescence of the machines needed to play the source material.
GENERAL
Sub-unit training for war and in war: an interview with Major General David Butler AO, DSO (F04848)
Army Training Technology Centre, Sydney, 1993
Colour/U-matic high band, sound, 48 mins 15 secs
Training Command initiative to draw on operational experiences for training purposes. Focuses on the training that Major General D.M. Butler, AO, DSO underwent in Japan, Korea and Australia during the Korean War, sub-unit training as the Commanding Officer of 6 RAR prior to, and during its second tour in South Vietnam in Australia and SVN between 1968 and 1970.
JAPAN AND KOREA 1946-53
Anonymous (RMC team) – The Battle of Kapyong: Korea 23-24 April 1951
Royal Military College, Canberra, 1991
ISBN: Nil
48 minute VHS audi-cassette
Local production which features the retelling fo the battle by the men who were there; interviews interspersed with maps and actual footage of the major battle which featured 3 RAR.
Australians at War (Episode 6 – Korea)
ABC, Sydney, 2001
VHS tape (6th in an 8 Episode ABC Video series), approx 55 mins.
Produced in conjunction with Beyond Productions, the Australian War Memorial and DVA.
Covers the Korean War which involved 1, 2 and 3 RAR. Digitised copy available.
SOUTH EAST ASIA 1950-current
(includes Malaya, Borneo, Singapore & Malaysia)
Australian War Memorial – Colonel OM Carroll, Retired, as a Platoon Commander 3 RAR Malaya 1957-59, interviewed by Colonel David Chinn, MBE, Retired.
AWM, Canberra, year unknown
ISBN: Nil
2 hr 12 minute audio-interview, AWM SO2867
Covers the experiences of an RAR platoon commander including serving with 3 RAR during the Malayan Emergency.
VIETNAM 1962-75
Australians at War (Episode 7 – Vietnam)
ABC, Sydney, 2001
VHS tape (7th in an 8 Episode ABC Video series), approx 55 mins.
Produced in conjunction with Beyond Productions, the Australian War Memorial and DVA.
Covers the Vietnam War which involved all RAR battalions in the period 1962-1975. Digitised copy available.
PEACE KEEPING & PEACE MAKING OPERATIONS
(Somalia 1992-93, Rwanda 1994-95, Cambodia 1994-95, Papua New Guinea 1946 to 1975, East Timor 1999-2012, Bougainville 1994, The Solomon Islands 2000 -2008, all remaining deployments not covered by UN or above (Rhodesia, Uganda)
Australians at War (Episode 8 – Peacekeeping Operations)
ABC, Sydney, 2001
VHS tape (8th in an 8 Episode ABC Video series), approx 55 mins.
Produced in conjunction with Beyond Productions, the Australian War Memorial and DVA.
Cover the Korean War which involved 1, 2 and 3 RAR. Digitised copy available.
IRAQ 2003-09 and 2014–ongoing
Nil entry
AFGHANISTAN 2006-ongoing
Nil entry
HUMANITARIAN
(Civilian Humanitarian Disaster ops (incl Darwin 1975 and other cyclones and floods, overseas eg PNG, Indian Ocean, and lately, Border Operations, and DACC (non-disaster) eg Olympics and Commonwealth Games and other government support eg APEC, G20)
Nil entry
