Information about Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War can be found by going to the following site.
http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/Vietnam.htm
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Nearly 7,000 US military officers perished in Vietnam.
Australia had nothing to do with the Vietnam War.
To quote some officers in Vietnam, "...the only war we had."
White officers and non-commissioned black officers.
Australia never fought Vietnam.
Australian society mirrored American society after the war, on a smaller scale, due to population differences.
The officers were white, but the non-commissioned officers and troops were African American.
They weren't. Many were full commissioned officers.
Mexican-American War : the Battle of Chapultepec .(Marine Corps tradition maintains that the red stripe worn on the trousers of officers and non-commissioned officers, and commonly known as the blood stripe commemorates the supposedly high number of Marine NCOs and officers killed storming the castle of Chapultepec in 1847.)
Australia entered the Vietnam War because Australia feared that they would have to face the spread of Communism.
President Johnson's visit to Australia during the Vietnam War was met by Australian anti-war protests.
Australia was an ally of the US and sent troops to fight in both WWII and Vietnam.