Australian armor (Centurian tanks) and armored personnel carriers (US M-113's), as well as regular infantrymen were sent to Vietnam.
The film "Jabob's Ladder" is about the US Army, not the Australian Army.
Australian and US warships trained at sea together. They also served on the gunline together in Vietnam. Australian & US ground troops fought together in South Vietnam; they also trained together out of theater.
Over 3,000 Australian Servicemen wounded in Vietnam.
No.
Vietnam and Cambodia
Approximately 1962.
By 1972.
On 28 April, 1965, Australian Prime Minister, Robert Menzies, announced that Australian troops would be sent to support the United States forces in the Vietnam war. The first Australian troops arrived in Vietnam in May 1965.
Australian troops entered into the Vietnam War on the 29th April 1965.
The Vietnam war, Which was in fact not realy a war but a police action.
Australia began exiting the war in Vietnam in 1970 and most all troops were out of the country by 1973. They did briefly send troops back in 1975 to help Australian embassy workers evacuate during the Fall of Saigon.
Australian and New Zealand Servicemen mirrored it's US counterparts in entering and leaving the Vietnam War; early 60's & early 70's.
The film "Jabob's Ladder" is about the US Army, not the Australian Army.
to fight
Australian and US warships trained at sea together. They also served on the gunline together in Vietnam. Australian & US ground troops fought together in South Vietnam; they also trained together out of theater.
Over 50,000 Australians served in the war; consisting largely of infantrymen, sailors, and Centurion tank crewmen.
Over 3,000 Australian Servicemen wounded in Vietnam.