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Between May and September, the remainder of the divisional units were formed, including the 5th Parachute Brigade, the 6th Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment, the 53rd (Worcester Yeomanry) Airlanding Light Regiment, Royal Artillery and the division's Pathfinders the 21st Independent Parachute Company. [11]
4th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment/Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment reconnaissance in force operation: between Nui Thia Vai mountain and Nui Dinh mountain: 2: Jun 18 – Jul 1: Operation Harmon Green [1] 1st and 3rd Battalions, 503rd Airborne Infantry Regiment reconnaissance in force operation: Binh Tuy, Lâm Đồng and Tuyen Duc ...
3rd Battalion, 503rd Airborne Infantry Regiment and 3rd Battalion, 506th Airborne Infantry Regiment clear and search operation: Bình Thuận, Bình Tuy and Lâm Đồng Provinces: Mar 6 – 7: Operation Ayr [1] [5] 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment search and destroy operation: near Bình Ba, Phước Tuy Province: Mar 7 – Apr 8 ...
5th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment and 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment search and destroy operation: Phước Tuy Province: Sep 13 – 22: Operation Atlantic City [1] 3rd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, 25th Infantry Division and 173rd Airborne Brigade search and destroy operation: Bình Dương Province: Sep 13 – Oct 2
The 6th Airlanding Brigade headquarters, 1st Battalion, Royal Ulster Rifles and the 6th Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment landed at LZN, [21] the latter equipped with the Tetrarch light tank – the first time that any tank had been flown into battle by air. [21] Watching the arriving gliders, Major-General Richard Nelson Gale later wrote:
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In face of the communist threat, the army was expanded to 192,000 with four corps, nine divisions, one airborne brigade, one SF group, three separate regiments, one territorial regiment, 86 ranger companies, and 19 separate battalions, as well as support units in 1963, and a force strength of 355,135 in 1970. [30]
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