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.
Robert Menzies
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.
Mexican troops; Platoon 201
They were drafted.
1962
Approximately 1962.
By 1972.
We left, they left. That was the factor.
Australian troops entered into the Vietnam War on the 29th April 1965.
If he was their president in '72; then yes.
As in Vietnam, Australia was asked to by the US.
he was the prime minister of Australia and he sent the troops to Vietnam