Primarily around III Corps (surrounding Saigon). For further reading, about defending Australian Firebase Coral during the Tet offensive in '68: "The Battle of Coral", by Lex McAulay (1988 printing), ISBN 978-0-09169-091-5
The same enemy everybody else was fighting: the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and the Viet Cong (VC).
500 dead ; 3,129 wounded .
Of course! Everybody has to fight the Vietnam War because they wanted to stop the Battle and they have to show some guts to fight in the Vietnam War.
6,000 Australians in country at once, was their average.
1395.
NVA and VC.
Australia is in the Asian sphere.
I was not involved in the Vietnam war. That was between the American (and Australians and south Vietnamese) and the Vietcong.
The NVA and VC...like the rest of the free world forces.
Probably around the Australians in III Corps (MR 3).
The Battle of Long tan was the Australians first big fight during the Vietnam War in 1966.
The same enemy everybody else was fighting: the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and the Viet Cong (VC).
Australians were in country from about '62 to '72.
The Australians provided assistance all over the country due to their expertise on jungle warfare, their main job during the early years was to train the fledgling ARVN to fight for themselves, it soon turned into the Australians performing military operations, reaching it's peak of 60'000 troops in Vietnam.
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1972.
In Vietnam, Britain stayed out of the fight; the Australians and New Zealanders fought though!