Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Australian Vietnam veterans were honoured at a "Welcome Home" parade in Sydney on 3 October 1987, and it was then that a campaign for the construction of the Vietnam War Memorial began. [122] This memorial, known as the Vietnam Forces National Memorial, was established on Anzac Parade in Canberra, and was dedicated on 3 October 1992. [123]
The Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV) was a specialist unit of military advisors of the Australian Army that operated during the Vietnam War.Raised in 1962, the unit was formed solely for service as part of Australia's contribution to the war, providing training and assistance to South Vietnamese forces.
At the end of the Vietnam War, six Australians were among the 2,338 people then listed as missing in action. Four Australian Army soldiers and two Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) were classified "missing in action" in four separate incidents with all six presumed to have been killed in action. Following the war, the remains of the servicemen ...
The Battle of Núi Lé (21 September 1971) was the last major battle fought by Australian and New Zealand forces in South Vietnam. [1] The battle was fought in the former Phước Tuy Province between elements of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) 33rd Regiment and 4RAR/NZ (ANZAC) Battalion during Operation Ivanhoe. [1]
Volume 7: Up Top: The Royal Australian Navy in Southeast Asian Conflicts, 1955–1972 (1998) – Jeffrey Grey; Volume 8: On the Offensive: The Australian Army in the Vietnam War 1967–1968 (2003) – Ian McNeill and Ashley Ekins; Volume 9: Fighting to the Finish: The Australian Army and the Vietnam War 1968–1975 (2012) – Ashley Ekins with ...
Members of the 7th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment in Vietnam, November 1967. Australia participated in the Vietnam War as part of a United States led-intervention to Vietnam to assist South Vietnam against North Vietnam. Australia committed 50,000 troops in the country, in which 520 were killed. The war had a deep effect on Australian ...
However, with the Australian commitment to Vietnam reducing, intelligence reports had indicated the presence of North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam troops in northern Phuoc Tuy, and the final battles fought by Australians in Vietnam began following the launch of Operation Ivanhoe (18 September – 2 October 1971). The battalion became ...
The 1st Armoured Personnel Carrier Squadron (1 APC Sqn) was an armoured unit of the Australian Army raised for service during the Vietnam War.Raised in 1965, the unit was deployed to South Vietnam in May 1966 to join the 1st Australian Task Force.