What The Viet Cong Feared Most -- Australians In Long Tan
Автор: Their Courage Remembered
Загружено: 2025-11-22
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The Viet Cong expected the Australians to break. They were catastrophically wrong.
August 18, 1966 - 108 Australian soldiers of D Company, 6RAR faced over 2,000 Viet Cong troops in a rubber plantation near Long Tan, Vietnam. This is the story almost never told: what the enemy actually thought when they fought Australians for the first time in force.
Using captured VC documents, intelligence reports, and post-war veteran accounts from both sides, this documentary reveals how the Battle of Long Tan permanently changed Viet Cong tactics and earned Australian soldiers a respect few foreign forces ever achieved.
WHAT YOU'LL DISCOVER:
Why the VC called Australians "ghost soldiers"
The tactical mistakes that cost the VC 600+ casualties
What captured enemy documents said about Australian fire discipline
How mateship became a battlefield survival system
Why VC training doctrine changed after Long Tan
The 18 Australians who gave their lives that day
This is military history told from the enemy's perspective—factual, powerful, and deeply respectful to all who served.
📍 Battle: Long Tan, Phuoc Tuy Province, Vietnam
📅 Date: August 18, 1966
🪖 Units: D Company 6RAR vs VC 275th Regiment
Lest we forget.
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