one person was Roy lee Webb who died at least in his 60s.
Australians drove Centurion tanks. Americans drove Patton and Sheridan tanks. The ARVN drove M41 Walker Bulldog light tanks; and the enemy, the NVA, drove PT76 Amphibious light tanks and T55 medium tanks.
The north drove their tanks into the south's capital, winning the war.
Australia deployed a regiment of their Centurion tanks to Vietnam.
Haiphong Harbor is where the USSR unloaded their supplies of MiG21 jet fighters, SAM missiles, and PT76 light tanks, and T-54/55 medium tanks to the North Vietnamese Air Force and Army. Red China just drove their supplies of MiG17 & MiG19 jet fighters across the border into North Vietnam.
They were drafted.
Where they are needed to be used XD
Australia sent Warships (Destroyers); Infantrymen and Centurion tanks to Vietnam.
Australia used Centurion tanks purchased from Great Britain during the Vietnam War.
WWII thru Vietnam was 5 tanks per platoon. 3 tanks led by the LT was the heavy section, 2 tanks led by the platoon sergeant was the light section. After Vietnam, everything changed.
Vietnam War tanks such as the M48 Patton and M551 Sheridan tanks had roughly 300 gallon fuel tanks.
NVA tanks invaded Saigon and captured that city (the capital of South Vietnam).
When NVA tanks parked on the front lawn of South Vietnam's capital on 30 April 1975.