• A Bit of Culture. Some links to the sites of some of our supporters and kindred spirits, some poetry, a link related to virus protection and other bits 'n pieces.
• Broken links. Please report any broken links to Anthony Bourke.

• Maps Related to this Incident. These are the marked up maps that support and are referred to in the items below.
• The Incident: 27 September 1969.
• Immediate Searches on 27 September 1969.
• Chronology: 28 September 1969.
• Chronology: 29 September - 1 October 1969.
• Chronology: 2 - 4 October 1969.
• The POW Scenario or Recovery of FISHER'S Body by the Enemy.
• Reported Locations for Impact of FISHER.
• Civilian Intrusion into the Incident Area from April 1975 to June 2003.
• Detail from Albie Cunningham.

These pages have been published for you to analyse critically, to tell me where we are wrong and hopefully to elicit the necessary inputs to get the story straight. Please E-mail me here if you wish to add to the discussion.

PARKER AND GILLSON .

Photographs of the Winch Out Point used on 9 November 1965 by A Company to winch out their WIA have been provided by Mr Gordon Peterson and have been published. These shots, here and here, may help those who were not in that area in 1965 to appreciate the vegetative cover that existed around Hill 82.

HERBERT AND CARVER.

The Southeast Asia Data Base (SEADAB) is now on line. The resource is known as the Access to Archival Databases (AAD) System and gives details of the combat air missions involving all the U.S. military services, as well as those of allied air forces during the period January 1970 to June 1975. Take a look at the site here. Mission No.6115 is in the AAD System but the columns headed TARGET UTM COORDINATE, TARGET GEOGRAPHIC COORDINATE, OPERATION SUPPORTED are blank. Interestingly enough, the cause of the loss is given as Surface to Air Missile.

7 February 2003

General Issues.

• Visits to the Areas of these Incidents. See here for guidelines to avoid upsetting the apple cart.
• Broken links. Please report any broken links to Anthony Bourke.
• Oxiexplorer Software. Mr Des Newman has kindly provided OPERATION AUSSIES HOME with a free copy of his Oxiexplorer software. It is clearly going to be an invaluable tool for our research and will save a great deal of time when it comes to marking up maps. Take a look at the Oxiexplorer site.

GILLESPIE.

Further Evidence of Location of Crash Site. Some new information regarding a visit to the crash site by an 17 or 18 year old male student in 1981 has been received and the location advised in the reference document (GS 4750) is consistent with the location previously predicted. See the document here.

PARKER AND GILLSON.

• Post Op Analysis by OC 105 Fd Bty. See here for a the details of indirect fire support in the area of Hill 82 during Operation HUMP, as far as can be ascertained.
• Map. Here is the map.
• Healy Mentioned Air Support. Take a look via this link.
Also there is a link to the Post Operational Analysis by OC A Company which mentions air support.
• Photographs of the Memorial Markers. The photographs of the memorial markers that Matthew erected for Parker and Gillson can be seen here.
• Visit on to Hill 82 by Mr Matthew D'Arcy. See here for Matthew's chronology of his visit.

HERBERT AND CARVER.

• Transcript of Radio Traffic between the Ground Controller (Capt Bill Hanig) and the crew of A84-231. See here.
• Track of A84-231. See here.
• Assumptions. A few assumptions have been made and these need to be checked by a competent authority. Check them out here.
• HELP Required. See here.

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24 November 2002.

General Issues.

• Broken Links. Please report any broken links to Anthony Bourke.


• Herbert and Carver. The discussion of the operational environment in which this Herbert and Carver mission was carried out as well as an outline of the Ground Directed Bombing (GDB) techniques of that time and the related questions is now here. (Scroll down to the HELP sign.)

Gillespie. The Gillespie case has been updated based on the evidence that has been collected so far.

• Outline of Operation Dong Khoi III: 16 - 26 Apr 71. Go here.
• Operation Dong Khoi III: Day 1 - 16 Apr 71.
Go here.
• Operation Dong Khoi III:Day 2 - 17 Apr 71.
Go here.
• Operation Dong Khoi III: Day 3 - 18 Apr 71. Recovery of the Bodies of Albertson and Blakhurst is explained here.
• No physical Inspection of Crash Site after 18 April 1971. Recorded evidence available indicates that allied forces did not visit the crash site (after Les Maher and party on 18 Apr 71) to confirm the extent of incineration of Gillespie's body.
• Location of the Crash Site. The "officially" recorded location of GR YS 475 507 is incorrect. Read about it here.
• The Gillespie File. All relevant references that are publicly available will be published on this website, respecting the privacy of individuals and, additionally, the sensitivity of the material itself.
• Development in the Long Hai. See photographs of the area as it is today.
• Assessment of Evidence Regarding Gillespie. See here.

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