Everything I’ve read so far leads me to believe your fathers experience with the White Mice was not at all unussual, they were (in)famous for being brutal and corrupt. Rather than be intimidated by your father’s rank and nationality they probably thought he was a tempting target, someone from whom they could try and extort larger bribes than from the locals.

A sardonic saying favored by the Saigon police was: “If they
are innocent beat them until they become guilty.”

By the way their nickname came from their uniform white helmets and gloves.

Cheers
Giles

Some of the South Vietnamese military police – Quan Canh, (nicknamed the ‘White Mice’ I tihnk because their uniform shirts were white) were apparently quite a paranoid lot. My father was taking photos near some ARVN military base and then tried to take photos of the White Mice guarding the place. They pointed rifles at him and told him to stop taking photos and back off or else they’d shoot him. They were not intimidated by the fact that he was a 1st Lieutentant in the Aussie Army.

My father was leading a platoon on a clearing patrol around part of Nui Dat early one morning when he heard noises from the undergrowth ahead of him. He was certain it was some Viet Cong infiltrators trying to get close to the Australian base and he flicked the selector on his M16A1 (which he had “bought”from an American soldier for a carton of Aussie beer!) to full-auto.
He waited for the ‘bad guys’ to poke their heads out of the shrubbery until the culprit appeared – a very angry rooster! Because it had not uttered a sound the incident was named the ‘Phantom Bantam’ incident.

He also mentioned that there was a species of lizard in Vietnam that made a vocalization that sounded very much like “f**k you”. Allegedly this spooked more than a few new arrivals to the jungles of Vietnam. Unsurprisingly, the lizards were called ‘f**k you lizards’ by the Aussies and Americans.

And as for something from the North Vietnamese/Viet Cong side although dating from 1969, there is a location called the Forest/Jungle of Screaming Souls in the Ia Drang/Chu Pong area. I first read about it in the book “The Sorrow of War” by Bao Ninh some years ago, there’s a good coverage on the following pdf
http://www.wilfredowenstory.com/Voices1.pdf

This also leads into the concept of the ‘wandering soul’ and its belief by the Vietnamese. A long article on this can be found here in regards to PsyOps inj Vietnam (and it specifically mentions the Jungle of Screaming Souls).
http://www.psywarrior.com/wanderingsoul.html

Its included in our next post, Both Adam Crossingham and I were pointed towards it than none other than Adam Scott Glancey. I had no knowledge of the radio transmissions story though that is absolutely gold.