The Battle of Long Tan in a rubber plantation in South Vietnam in 1966 could have been an Australian military disaster, but is instead remembered as a decisive victory. On August 18, 1966 ...

the two pilots flew to the 6 RAR lines and were loaded with as much ammunition as they could carry and then took off for the five minute flight to the Long Tan rubber plantation. In the heavy rain ...

The Australian memorial cross in the Long Tan rubber plantation is one of only two foreign war memorials allowed in Vietnam. Smith says of his superiors at Nui Dat enjoying the concert ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. FORTY-TWO years after their unit fought through a long and bloody night in a rubber plantation at Long Tan in Vietnam, the veterans ...

On 16 August 1966, Australian soldiers confronted an enemy force of more than 2,500 in a rubber plantation north of the village of Long Tan. With only 108 men, our Australian soldiers stood and ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. As Vietnam veteran Jim Richmond stood in front of the Long Tan Cross the dream returned, the one that has been with him since his ...

Long Tan owes its iconic status in Australian military lore to the fact that so many survived, as well as died. The death of 18 soldiers in a rubber plantation 40 years ago on August 18 ...

Hervey Bay man Harry Smith, then a major, led 6RAR's Delta Company in a fierce firefight against with 2500 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese in the Long Tan rubber plantation on August 18 ...

In 1966 in the Vietnamese rubber plantation Long Tan, 108 young, inexperienced Australian and New Zealand soldiers are fighting against 2500 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers. As arts ...

In August of 1966, in a Vietnamese rubber plantation called Long Tan, 108 young and mostly inexperienced Australian and New Zealand soldiers fight for their lives against 2,500 North Vietnamese ...

And, in the pouring rain, amid the mud and shattered trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tan, with their ammunition running out and another Vietnamese battalion massing for the final assault ...