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50 year Anzac Day anniversary for NZ medics in Vietnam
The Ministry for Culture and Heritage and the Viet Nam Health Trust are marking the 50th anniversary of the New Zealand surgical team's arrival in South Vietnam to treat civilian casualties of war-related accident and injury.
Service memory: The Vietnam War
Received commission through ROTC at the University of Wyoming in 1967, spent two years in Germany and 1969 to '70 in Vietnam with the 444th Transportation Company, 27th Transportation Battalion, 8th Transportation Group.
Vietnam vet was accomplished antiques restorer
Preceded by: First wife Anna "Joy" Sturm Amacker, father A.J. Amacker, stepfather retired Lt.