User:Ernieacorn

The Battle of Nui Le. Dear Wikipedia: Regrettably, in late 2016 some Australian Vietnam veterans began to amend accounts of the Battle of Nui Le - including: increasing the size of the NVA force (ie elements of the 33rd NVA Regiment), stating that the 33rd's mission was to attack Australian forces - or even attack the Nui Dat base itself. However, the HQ and 1/33rd Battalion actually moved south out of Long Khanh Province to avoid the operations of the US 3rd Brigade (Separate) of the 1st Air Cavalry Division (Airmobile); accounts have also claimed that the CO of 33rd Regiment and/or the CO of 3/33rd Battalion were killed in the engagement (However, I have post-War photos of both Nguyen Van Thuong and Trieu Kim Son). I have explained to these Australian Vietnam veterans that I consider their "revised" and inaccurate accounts are but "tendentious revisionism". Following my interviews in Vietnam and email exchanges with 33rd Regiment veterans (beginning in 2008 - including with the 33rd Regiment Veterans' Association) - and access to Australian SIGINT reporting, I wrote and published: Chamberlain, E.P., The 33rd Regiment – North Vietnamese Army: Their Story (and the Battle of Binh Ba – 1969), 2014 (ISBN 978-0-9750350-5-4) - 128,000 words with maps, photographs, index etc. Subsequently, this year (2017)- following the publication by the 33rd Regiment of its history in 2016, I wrote and published: Chamberlain, E.P., The 33rd Regiment (North Vietnamese Army): Their History (1965 – 1989) (including the Battles of Binh Ba - 1969 and Nui Le - 1971) – 2016. (ISBN 978-0-9750350-6) - 80,000+ words with maps, photographs, and index. Both books are "free-to-read" on the Internet as 2014: https://www.scribd.com/doc/217396459/The-33rd-Regiment-North-Vietnamese-Army-Their-Story-and-the-Battle-of-Binh-Ba and 2017: https://www.scribd.com/document/346613212/The-33rd-Regiment-North-Vietnamese-Army-Their-History-1965-1989-including-the-Battles-of-Binh-Ba-1969-and-Nui-Le-1971. Both these books include far more detail than the current references on the Wikipedia "Battle of Nui Le" article - including interviews, captured documents, SIGINT and other material no available to the writers of other referenced works. Complimentary copies of my books have been forwarded to the Australian Department of Veterans Affairs, the Australian War Memorial, HQ Australian Defence Force, several libraries and museums, 4RAR/NZ (ANZAC) veterans, and senior Australian Vietnam War veterans. You might wish to consider including my two books among your article's references. Yours sincerely, Ernie Chamberlain