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Mar 6, 2019 · Barry Petersen was an Australian army captain who led top secret CIA operations in the highlands during the Vietnam War until, like Marlon Brando’s character Colonel Kurtz in the movie Apocalypse Now, he got too close to the natives and the CIA wanted him out, dead or alive.
- Barry Petersen is a Vietnam War hero with a difference.
BARRY Petersen, a 75-year-old Australian dying of cancer in...
- Barry Petersen is a Vietnam War hero with a difference.
Barry Petersen is a CBS News Correspondent. He has reported on wars, natural disasters, Paris fashions, the fading popularity of Welsh choirs, and the return of American jazz to Shanghai, China. He has worked for CBS News for more than three decades. Biography
Nov 12, 2010 · BARRY Petersen, a 75-year-old Australian dying of cancer in Bangkok, has one of those lives that seems untrue. Yet it is not. He is real. ‘‘I have undertaken a few endeavours,’’ he says, ‘‘but I am nearing the end now.’’. Petersen was awarded 13 medals for his service in Vietnam, Borneo and Malaysia. He ended up a lieutenant-colonel.
Mar 1, 2019 · Barry Petersen, who earned 13 military medals for his services in Vietnam, Borneo and Malaysia, died on Thursday night, say friends and former colleagues. He was in his early 80s.
Mar 1, 2019 · Australian Barry Petersen, who became a legend in the highlands of Vietnam in the early 1960s when he formed an ethnic guerrilla force made up of 1,200 Montagnards and inflicted heavy casualties on the communist North Vietnamese, passed away at his home in Bangkok on February 28 after a long and tough fight with cancer.
May 26, 2010 · Emmy Award-winning CBS News correspondent Barry Petersen shares his journey into life as a caregiver to his wife, Jan, diagnosed with Early Onset Alzheimer's...
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Jun 21, 2010 · CBS News Correspondent Barry Petersen discusses, with anchor Emily Smith, his new book about his life with wife Jan after she develops early on-set Alzheimer...
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