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The Battle of Long Tan Vietnam 1966

The battle of Long Tan saw 108 young Australian and New Zealand soldiers fight and defeat 2,500 enemy Viet Cong and NVA troops in a rubber plantation in South Vietnam on 18 August 1966. 18 Australians were killed and some 500-800 VC and NVA were killed.







http://youtu.be/8gUSq7pxux4


Added: Jul-2-2012 Occurred On: Jul-2-1966
By: buoymarker
In: Other
Tags: vietnam, Long Tan, Australia, New Zealand, war, military, ambush
Location: Viet Nam (load item map)
Marked as: approved
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  • crazy, was on the edge of my seat watching this. I could imagine what hell, what a meat grinder that was.

    Posted Jul-3-2012 By 
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  • never knew about this story. good post.

    Posted Jul-3-2012 By 
    Amusing (5318.88)

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  • God bless the Aussies for their brevity and gallantry, despite the politics.

    Posted Jul-2-2012 By 
    Megadeth (1482.10)  

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  • WOW awesome doc. BOUY! plz vote this.
    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4b2_1334878419
    well done docu. Lots of good info packed in.

    Posted Jul-3-2012 By 
    absu69 (2170.34)

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  • An hour and 41 minutes, and well worth every minute it took to listen to their story.
    Thank you for sharing.....VERY impressive group of young men.....and every bit as good as any American soldier who was in Nam.
    A sincere salute and a tip of the hat to every damned one of them.
    God, I love the Aussies......(but CHRIST they've got some strong BO!)

    Posted Jul-3-2012 By 
    Bogenschutze (195.22)

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  • awesome upload thank you for the post.

    Posted Jul-3-2012 By 
    crazedcountryrebel (96.60)  
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  • Now that, was amazing. Nicely done.

    Posted Jul-3-2012 By 
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  • "Just fire the bloody guns where WE want them or you will lose the whole bloody lot of us"

    The Australian War Memorial in Canberra is well worth a visit. It has piles of radio recordings and stuff like this. Allow at least 2 days, you might see nearly everything there.

    Posted Jul-3-2012 By 
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  • Not to be confused with the Siege of Short Pale.

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  • great post. I wouldn't have burried the gooks. I would have let nature run its course. All I would have done was destroyed the guns.

    Posted Jul-3-2012 By 
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  • This looks great. Fav'd and voted for later viewing when I have time.

    Posted Jul-3-2012 By 
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  • Futile !

    ...Vietnamese did not saw foreign as saviors but yet another colonial powers trying to dominate their land and resources...

    Communist as much as I despise them as an ideology ...did make them fight for their country and gave them the tool to fight their battles along with respect and some sort of independence of actions...so the common Vietnamese citizen had really no hard choice to make...

    ...Just browse here in LL comment and in about 5 minutes you see calling them monkeys, gooks More..

    Posted Jul-3-2012 By 
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  • Thanks for all of your kind comments, I co-wrote and produced this documentary. Just an FYI that we are also working on a feature film version of this story to bring it to the big screen.

    Posted Jul-9-2012 By 
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  • Those Vietnams remind me of monkeys, killer monkeys.

    "They're like the Viet cong: Varmint cong..." ~Carl Spackler

    Posted Jul-2-2012 By 
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