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Series number
AWM268
Title
The Official History of Australia's Involvement in Southeast Asian Conflicts 1948-1975 - The RAAF in Vietnam - Records of Chris Coulthard-Clark
Accumulation dates
circa 1990 - circa 1995
Contents dates
circa 1990 - circa 1995
Items in this series on RecordSearch
91

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Agency/person recording
  • 1990 - 1994
    CA 7042, Official History of Australia's Involvement in Southeast Asian Conflicts 1948-1975
  • 1990 - 1995
    CP 974, Dr Peter Geoffrey EDWARDS AM - Official Historian and General Editor
Agency/person controlling
  •  
    CA 616, Australian War Memorial
System of arrangement/ control
Single number system (some further subdivision) with alphabetical prefix (to be imposed)
Predominant physical format
PAPER FILES AND DOCUMENTS
Series note

Series number

AWM268

 

Series title

The Official History of Australia's Involvement in Southeast Asian Conflicts 1948-1975 - Vietnam War – The Royal Australian Air Force in Vietnam - Records of Chris Coulthard-Clark

 

Series contents range

1962-1995

 

Extent

1.27m

 

Access conditions

Subject to the Australian Archives Act (1983)

 

Agency controlling

Australian War Memorial

 

Custodial Agency

Australian War Memorial

 

Function and provenance

In 1982, Professor Peter Edwards was appointed to produce an official history series on Australia's involvement in Southeast Asian conflicts from 1948 to 1975. This nine-volume series covers the longest period of any of the official histories and deals with the Malayan Emergency (1948-1960), the Indonesian-Malaysian Confrontation (1963-1966) and the Vietnam War (1962-1972).

 In keeping with the previous official histories, this series covers Australian combat operations by all three services as well as the areas of strategy, diplomacy, home front politics and society, and medical matters.

The initial intent was to have Professor Jeffrey Grey write the volumes on the Royal Australian Navy and Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) involvement in the war. However, in 1990, it was agreed that Dr Christopher Clark (then known as Chris Coulthard-Clark) would be appointed to the Australian Air Power Studies Centre to write the RAAF History.

This work is an ‘official history’ in the sense that the work was funded by the government, and the author was allowed unfettered access to all the official documents. In all other respects, it is an independent review of events, with official sources bolstered by media reports and personal reminiscence.

This series contains notes and records created during research and publishing of the official history of the RAAF.

  

Content

The series is divided into four sections, each with a distinct theme.  The sections are labelled A though D.

Section A contains working drafts and proofs used during the preparation and editing of the book. Many of the items are heavily pen amended or edited.

Section B comprises original and negative copies of photos used in the book, as well as some other source material.  About 90% of the photographs are in black and white, and many duplicates occur. All appear to have been obtained from official sources.

This section also contains a series of draft captions for each photograph.  Not all photographs contained in this section were selected for inclusion in the book.

Section C contains a significant amount of primary and secondary source material.  These items include:

·         Australian Government reports,

·         Academic papers,

·         US Government reports,

·         Contemporary squadron briefing materials,

·         Personal papers, including logbooks,

·         Extracts from official files, and

·         Unit histories.

Section D contains the final photographs and manuscripts submitted for publication.

 

 

System of arrangement and control

A three part alphanumeric control system has been imposed, featuring a letter as the primary section index.  The control system runs as follows:

A/1/-   Drafts and proofs   

B/-/-      Photographic material with caption drafts

C/-/-      Notes and primary source material

D/1/-   Final manuscript and photographs

 

Using the series

Each item in the series is recorded on the RecordSearch database which researchers can view on the internet. Further assistance in finding relevant information may be gained from related series of records (click on Series Links at the bottom of this page.)

 

Sources

AWM268 Series Dossier

Chris Coulthard-Clark, The RAAF in Vietnam: Australia, Air Involvement in the Vietnam War 19632-1975 (Allen & Unwin in association with the Australian War Memorial, Sydney, 1995)

Official Histories webpage at AWM: https://www.awm.gov.au/histories/seasia/

 

 

Subsequent series
  •  
    AWM330, Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations
Related series
  • 1990 - 1994
    AWM267, The Official History of Australia's Involvement in Southeast Asian Conflicts 1948-1975 - Medicine at war - Records of Brendan O'Keefe and F B Smith
  • 1990 - 1995
    AWM257, The Official History of Australia's Involvement in Southeast Asian Conflicts 1948-1975 - Vietnam War - Army series - Records of Ian McNeill and Ashley Ekins
  • 1990 - 1995
    AWM263, The Official History of Australia's Involvement in Southeast Asian Conflicts 1948-1975 - Crises and commitments - A nation at war - Records of Peter Edwards
  • 1990 - 1995
    AWM278, The Official History of Australia's Involvement in Southeast Asian Conflicts 1948-1975 - Up top - Records of Jeffrey Grey
  • 1990 - 1995
    AWM269, The Official History of Australia's Involvement in Southeast Asian Conflicts 1948-1975 - Emergency and confrontation - Records of Peter Dennis and Jeffrey Grey
Date registered
19 Sep 1996

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