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Long Tan 18 August 1966
By Martin English | August 15, 2006
From kevgillett.net
It is a myth that the Free World Military Forces lost the Vietnam War. Called the American War by the Vietnamese the Communists lost at Tet 68 when they had their arses handed back to them on a plate. The South Vietnamese rebellion that the North had banked their money on didn’t eventuate and when Nixon released the dogs of war in the form of B52s a year or two later, they were forced to the Peace Talks in Paris. Agreement was reached, all beligerants withdrew; the US and Australia went home and the North Vietnamese pulled back north of the DMZ. The war was over.
Two years later the North Vietnamese, rearmed by the USSR who wanted warm ports on the Pacific rim, invaded the South.
In a 2004 post about Long Tan, Kev also makes the point that there are only two memorials to foreign armies in Vietnam. One is at Long Tan where D Coy held the thin green line and by doing so wrote themselves into history books.
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