Book, Colman, Mike, Payne VC: The story of Australia's most decorated soldier of the Vietnam War, 2009

Summary

In May 1969, Warrant Officer Second Class Keith Payne was leading a company of Montagnard soldiers near Ben Het, Vietnam. The company was overrun by a superior force of North Vietnamese regular soldiers, and when the skirmish was over many of Payne's men were left behind, wounded, disoriented and at the mercy of the enemy.

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