Australians at War 1901-2000
1967–1970
April 1967
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- A Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps nurse and Vietnamese child, Hoa Long, Vietnam, 1967. [AWM negative GIL/67/483/VN]
April 1967 - June 1971
RAAF aircraft carried out extensive bombing missions in support of the Australian Task Force and allied units in Vietnam.
1967
Formation of the Australian Civil Affairs Unit to develop civilian aid projects aimed at improving living standards in Phuoc Tuy Province, Vietnam.
30 January 1968
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- RAAF Canberra Bomber in action, Vietnam. [AWM negative VN69/25/3]
'Tet' offensive by the Viet Cong began. Australian involvment in this period included the successful repulse of the enemy from Ba Ria, capital of Phuoc Thuy province, by elements of 3RAR.
19 April 1968
Dedication of the Desert Mounted Corps Memorial on Anzac Parade, Canberra, by Prime Minister John Gorton. The memorial is a copy of the original unveiled at Port Said, Egypt, by former Prime Minister William Morris Hughes in 1932.
1 May 1968
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- RAAF Iroquois helicopters evacuate Australian wounded from Fire Support Base ‘Coral’, Vietnam, May 1968. [AWM negative CRO/68/563/VN]
Two battalions of the Royal Australian Regiment (RAR), supported by tanks, involved in action at Fire Support Bases 'Coral' and 'Balmoral', Vietnam.
[For the purposes of this timeline, the first day of the month has been chosen as an indicative date only].
28 May 1968
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- Australian soldiers waiting to return to base after the Battle of Long Tan in Vietnam, 18 August 1966. [AWM negative CUN/66/704/VN]
Award of United States Presidential Unit Citation to D Company, 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, for the Battle of Long Tan.
30 August 1968
Death of C E W Bean, founder of the Australian War Memorial and editor of the Official History of Australia in the War of 1914 - 18.
6 June 1969
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- An Australian soldier, a ‘turnnel rat’, emerging from a search of a Viet Cong turnnel in Vietnam. [AWM negative CUN/66/522/VIN]
6 - 7 June 1969
Battle of Binh Ba, Vietnam.
1 November 1970
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- A member of the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV) instructing a Montagnard irregular, Vietnam, 1969. [AWM negative BEL/69/805/VN]
Two battalions of the Royal Australian Regiment (RAR), supported by tanks, involved in action at Fire Support Bases 'Coral' and 'Balmoral', Vietnam.
[For the purposes of this timeline, the first day of the month has been chosen as an indicative date only].