at least some American film buffs out there might have a vague familiarity with the contributions of Australian Army units ...

the military and governments did not feature their exploits in Vietnam. That was a recognition of mass hostility to the war, which resulted in some of the largest demonstrations in Australia’s ...

Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War officially ended 50 years ago, but the consequences have cut through our population for three generations. The Vietnam War – one of the 20th century’s ...

Military conscription in Australia had been abandoned in 1959 but was reintroduced in 1964 to support the war effort in Vietnam. Controversially, this call-up of 20-year-old men now included the ...

Fifty-six years ago, the now peaceful forest was a war zone and the site ... fire, the Australian's repelled the People's Army of Vietnam and Viet Cong forces. Three Australians died and 14 ...

Earlier this year, Labor's Defence Strategic Review dramatically reduced the scope of the LAND 400 Phase 3 project which aims to replace the Australian Army's Vietnam War-era M113 Armoured ...

The Vietnam War was the longest conflict Australia was involved in during the 20th Century. The men who served in the Vietnam War “made the nation proud”, Veterans Affairs Minister Matt Keough ...

In Australia, there was no real movement of anti-war Vietnam veterans. While activists in the US attended demonstrations in military uniform, some Australian veterans have ­complained that they ...

An Australian soldier has been posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross - the Commonwealth's highest military honour - for bravery during the Vietnam War. The then 19-year-old Private Richard ...

Accordingly, the Military Dictionary defines a forward ... Folk Songs of Americans in the Vietnam War,” is available from both Amazon and iTunes). Squadron Leader (later air vice-marshal ...