The Battle of Long Tan 1500 Strong VC and NVA Force Ambushed 108 Australians And Lost War
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The Battle of Long Tan (18 August 1966) took place in a rubber plantation near Long Tân, in Phước Tuy Province, South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War.The action was fought between Viet Cong (VC) and People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) units and elements of the 1st Australian Task Force (1 ATF).. Australian signals intelligence (SIGINT) had tracked the VC 275th Regiment and D445 Battalion.
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The battle took place in a rubber plantation called Long Tan. The trees of the rubber plantation offered little protection to either side. The ground was mostly a red coloured clay type soil with no vegetation. The regular afternoon monsoonal rains began at 4:30pm, intensifying at 4:50pm. The rain began easing at 6:30pm and by last light at 7.
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The Battle of Long Tan: How 100 Australian soldiers held off 2,000 Viet Cong. The Battle of Long Tan in a rubber plantation in South Vietnam in 1966 could have been an Australian military disaster.
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Historical Research Journal. $7.00. On August 18, 1966, in a rubber plantation near the small village of Long Tan, 108 Australian and New Zealand soldiers found themselves encircled by an overwhelming force of over 2,000 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops. These men, vastly outnumbered, fought for their lives in the face of insurmountable odds.
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The battle of Long Tan was fought on 18 August 1966. One-hundred-and-five men from D Company, 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR) and three New Zealanders from an artillery forward observation party from New Zealand's 161 Field Battery, encountered a force of more than 2,000 Viet Cong soldiers.
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English. Budget. $24 million AUD [1] Box office. $2 million [2] Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan is a 2019 Australian war film about the Battle of Long Tan during the Vietnam War. It is directed by Kriv Stenders and stars Travis Fimmel .
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In the Long Tan rubber plantation five kilometres east of Nui Dat they encountered a combined NVA and VC force estimated at 1500-2000 strong. During the ensuing battle D Company managed to hold off repeated attacks with artillery support from 161 Battery and the other three batteries at Nui Dat (two Australian, one United States).
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Both Australia and Vietnam have claimed the Battle of Long Tan as a victory. The argument from Australian veterans that their 50th anniversary commemorations are apolitical falls flat.
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Award-winning and critically acclaimed documentary, The Battle of Long Tan narrated by Sam Worthington, first broadcast on The History Channel on 16 August 2.
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The Battle of Long Tan was the most important engagement of Australia's involvement in Vietnam, which began in July and August 1962 when 30 military advisers from the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam arrived to work with the American contingent of military advisers assisting South Vietnam's armed forces in their fight with the NVA and Viet Cong.
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Whether the battle impaired the capabilities of the VC is disputed. The Battle of Long Tan took place in a rubber plantation near Long Tân, in Phước Tuy Province, South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. The action was fought between Viet Cong (VC) and People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) units and elements of the 1st Australian Task Force.
The Battle of Long Tan 1500 Strong VC and NVA Force Ambushed 108 Australians And Lost War
During the Vietnam War, 108 Australian soldiers stood against some 1,500 to 2,500 Vietnamese forces near the village of Long Tan. When the battle was over, the Australians had lost 18 men, while another 24 were wounded. The Vietnamese, however, may have suffered well over 500 casualties.
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Battle of Long Tan Story. In May 1966 the first soldiers of the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR) arrived in South Vietnam; the rest followed in June. Within two months elements of the battalion found themselves engaged in one of the largest battles fought by Australians in the Vietnam War. By August 1966 the Australian task force.
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Late afternoon August 18, 1966 South Vietnam — for three and a half hours, in the pouring rain, amid the mud and shattered trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tan, Major Harry Smith and his dispersed company of 108 young and mostly inexperienced Australian and New Zealand soldiers are fighting for their lives, holding off an overwhelming enemy force of 2,500 battle hardened Viet Cong.
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the battle of long tan Four years after our forces landed in Vietnam came a defining moment in Australia's war efforts: the Battle of Long Tan . On 18 August 1966, a total of 105 soldiers of Delta (D) Company - a company of 6RAR - and three men of 161 Field Battery, Royal New Zealand Artillery, held off enemy forces for more than three hours in a tropical downpour.