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as we that are left grow old Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them .....Lest we forget.
 This site aims to bring together, under one banner, all the elements of The Vietnam War from the perspective of Australia's involvement. Vietnam- A Short History, tells the story of Vietnam from World War 2 when Japan occupied Indochina. From the Americans and Chinese who helped the Viet Minh and used them against the Japanese, to the period following WW11 when the French tried to claim back its colonies. Then from the period 1956 to the outbreak of all out war in 1965 until its end in 1975. Australia's Involvement relates how our governments reaction to America's intervention led to Australia sending a training team and advisers. How the escalation prompted Menzies to introduce National Service, and then send combat troops in 1965. The article covers the involvement of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, and includes details about some of those units and what they accomplished. Vietnam - Tactics & Warfare describes the tactics used by the Viet Cong and North Vietnam Army in Phuoc Tuy Province, against the Australians, New Zealanders, and South Vietnamese. The article includes the counter measures employed by Australia and its Allies, of harassment by ambushing those who would ambush us; of Search and Destroy Missions; and, of Cordon and Search Details designed to try and break down the Viet Cong Infrastructure. The Aftermath explains what happens when a government sends its fittest, most highly trained, young men off to fight someone else's war. Have them kill or be killed, bombed, ambushed, wounded by an enemy that hardly showed his face, and was always all around Australian troops, with no safe areas. Then secret those troops home to be returned to civilian life without detraining, debriefing, or a real chance to be retrained with the soldiers they had fought with in Vietnam. Resources and Partner Links provides the means for those who wish to seek further information. Like what really happened at the Battles of Long Tan, and at Fire Support Bases Coral and Balmoral, and more. You might want to visit the Australian War Memorial Site, or The Vietnam Veteran's Federation Site. Or other sites where you can find out specific statistics and knowledge not included here, simply because their inclusion would cloud the issues raised within this site. Finally, Contact gives you the opportunity to send your comments to the site author. Perhaps relay an error, or to pass on more information, or to make your own observations about one of my articles. You should read my Privacy Statement below if you are going to contact this site.
You won't find any pictures here, just text articles on The Vietnam War and what Australia did during the longest war in our history. It should provide the school student with the information for the HSC curriculum. It should provide all other researchers with the information they seek, if only to broaden their own knowledge of what the Vietnam Veteran has needed to come to grips with their service, and the war against the Government in order to secure Veteran's rights. My Contact Page contains fields that require you to input information. I strongly recommend that you restrict any such information to that which cannot identify you personally. Any information sent to me via this site is secured by the protocols of my service provider, with sureties that data so downloaded is treated in strictest confidentiality, and only passed on to me via security firewall protection.
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