The cancellation of the Little Pattie concert last night and the restrictions imposed on Australian tourists at Long Tan have caused controversy throughout the Vietnamese city of Vung Tau and across ...
'Red Dog' director Kriv Stenders' latest film, 'Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan,' stars 'Vikings' veteran Travis Fimmel in the story of a bloody battle fought by Australians in Vietnam. By Harry ...
Danger Close is a new Australian film depicting one of the most significant battles of the Vietnam war: The Battle of Long Tan. “Danger Close” is a military phrase used in battle when forward and ...
Exclusively for CounterPunch, Matthew Stevenson travels from Haiphong and Hanoi, in what was North Vietnam, to the Central Highlands and Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon and the capital, in search of ...
A Vietnam veteran says authorities have a moral duty to recognise the gallantry of 13 Australian soldiers who fought at the battle of Long Tan. On August 18, 1966, more than 100 soldiers of D Company ...
The Australian War Memorial's newest permanent exhibition will showcase the Long Tan Cross, one of Australia's most important relics from the Vietnam War. 'The Long Tan Cross has come home to us all,' ...
Australian visitors walk quietly and slowly, strung along a broad but unplanned line with heads bowed. The boisterousness that preceded our arrival is suddenly absent. We move across this former ...
The defining battle of the Vietnam war is now the subject of the film Danger Close. Harry Smith recalls the afternoon that changed his life If he dwells on it, Lt Col Harry Smith can still see, ...
Mr Roche, now 75 and living on the Gold Coast, doesn’t even like to talk about the hell that broke out in the dark, wet rubber plantation where 18 Australians were killed and 24 wounded on August 18, ...
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