Born Peter Badcock in South Australia in 1934 (he changed his name to Badcoe in 1961), Badcoe enlisted in the Australian Army in June 1950 when he was only 16 – he had long-held ambitions to join the army despite his father’s opposition. Badcoe then joined Officer Cadet School in 1952 and graduated at the end of the year as a second lieutenant in the Royal Australian Artillery. He was promoted to captain in 1960 and, in June 1961, toured to the Federation of Malaysia (after the conclusion of the Malayan Emergency in July 1960 and which had involved troops from Australia since 1950). For a week in November 1962, Badcoe was seconded to observe counter-insurgency techniques in South Vietnam, specifically in Quáng Ngãi Province (located south of Da Nang). Even though he was only there for seven days, he saw combat with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN).
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NAUMACHIA TRUTH BEHIND ROME'S GLADIATOR SEA BATTLES
In their quest for evermore novel and bloody entertainment, the Romans staged enormous naval fights on artificial lakes
OPERATION MANNA
In late April 1945, millions of Dutch civilians were starving as Nazi retribution for the failed Operation Market Garden cut off supplies. eet as In response, Allied bombers launched a risky mission to air-drop food
GASSING HITLER
Just a month before the end of WWI, the future Fuhrer was blinded by a British shell and invalided away from the frontline. Over a century later, has the artillery brigade that launched the fateful attack finally been identified?
SALAMANCA
After years of largely defensive campaigning, Lieutenant General Arthur Wellesley went on the offensive against a French invasion of Andalusia
HUMBERT 'ROCKY'VERSACE
Early in the Vietnam War, a dedicated US Special Forces officer defied his merciless Viet Cong captors and inspired his fellow POWs to survive
LEYTE 1944 SINKING THE RISING SUN
One of the more difficult island campaigns in WWII's Pacific Theatre saw a brutal months-long fight that exhausted Japan’s military strength
MAD DAWN
How technology transformed strategic thinking and military doctrine from the Cold War to the current day
BRUSHES WITH ARMAGEDDON
Humanity came close to self-annihilation with the Cuban Missile Crisis, Broken Arrows’ and other nuclear near misses
THE DEADLY RACE
How the road to peace led to an arms contest between the USA and USSR, with prototypes, proliferation and the world’s biggest bomb
THE MANHATTAN PROJECT
Einstein, Oppenheimer and the race to beat Hitler to the bomb. How a science project in the desert helped win a war
