Australians in Vietnam

[Wildcat]

Found this great site with loads of info. Well worth a read for those interested
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[FLYBOYJ]

My brother talked about Australians in Viet Nam - ferocious soldiers

[Screaming Eagle]

good ones too

[Emac44]

Thanks Wild will have a good recce on this site later stage. Will place it in favourites to read later thanks digger

[Aggie08]

On the Australian Special Air Services:
"580 SAS soldiers served in South Vietnam. There were 298 contacts with the enemy, inflicting 492 kills, 106 possible kills, 47 wounded, 10 possibly wounded and 11 taken as prisoners. 5366 enemy were sighted in 801 separate sightings. The Australia and New Zealand casualties were one(1) killed in action, one(1) died of wounds, one(1) killed in a grenade accident, two(2) accidentally shot on patrol, one(1) missing on a hot rope extraction and one(1) died of illness."

Impressive!

[Wildcat]

Yep, the "phantoms of the jungles" as they were known were feared amoungst the VC/NVA.

[lesofprimus]

I've met a couple Aussie Vietnam Vets in the past, as well as my fathers high regard for them... They were, and are, excellent operators...