Interesting to see that a Colonel Clutterbuck was also on the panel. Read a book by him years ago on the Malayan "Emergency". He emphasised the importance of keeping the local villagers on side with the hearts and minds campaign, a point which was lost on the Americans in Vietnam.
Mrs B lived in the "protected village" of Pokok Assam near Taiping, which was in a Hot Zone of Perak until the age of ten. She had no idea they were surrounded by Communist Terrorists or that fighting was going on all around them. Her Grandfather owned a rubber smallholding in Ayer Kuning that was the scene of a two hour gun battle between the CTs and a Malaysian Police Field Unit, but knew nothing about it until I pointed it out in a book about the Malayan Emergency. I doubt if there any 1960s Vietnamese children who were unaware of the Vietnam War.