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Memories of Service 4 - Dez Harrison
Web (Full Length) – 2017
After a long flight in a C-130 Hercules, Dez Harrison arrived in Vietnam on the fifth of May 1967. As he puts it, when you’re young and green it’s all an adventure. Serving in 161 Field battery, Harrison says he was blessed with good leadership from non-commissioned officers who were mainly veterans of Korea and Malaya. As the memories rattle off, he has plenty of praise for the Americans in Vietnam, but less so for his Australian comrades. Stories of leave in Saigon and Singapore provide fond memories, but the reception back in New Zealand at the end of his service is less happy.
I wasn’t old enough but I basically told my parents that with parents’ consent I could go at 19, so they either signed the paper or I forged their signature. So I went and arrived in Vietnam about fifth of May 1967.– Dez Harrison
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