SATURDAY, February 4, 1967, was a difficult day at the office for Major Peter Badcoe.
An officer with the Australian Army Training Team in Vietnam, he had spent the previous afternoon in a "fairly inconclusive scrap" with Vietcong forces at Hung Tra on the border of North and South Vietnam.
Saturday dawned with fresh fighting. Badcoe's letters to his wife, Denise, and their three daughters recall that as his team of South Vietnamese soldiers entered the village of Sia, they"met the VC coming down the road".
