On Aug. 18, Australians remember their countrymen who served in the Vietnam War. The official name of the holiday is Vietnam Veterans Day, but many Aussies still call it “Long Tan Day” after the location of Australia’s bloodiest battle since the Korean War.
On that day in 1966, 105 Australian soldiers and three New Zealand forward artillery observers faced 2,500 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army guerrillas in a rubber plantation in Phuoc Tuy province, South Vietnam.
They fought desperately in darkness and torrential rain for nearly four hours. The Australian Army lost 18 men that night and the fighting injured a further 24.
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