Australian Vietnam War veterans and descendants help discover long-buried Vietnamese soldiers. Story by Exclusive by Lawrence Jeffcoat • 1w. I n a rubber forest just north of Ho Chi Minh City ...

Australians now mark Vietnam Veterans Day on Aug. 18, the day of the Battle of Long Tan. It was a war that came to be despised by the public in Australia, and the veterans bore the brunt of it.

Almost half a century later, nearly 50 Australian Vietnam Veterans have returned to the Communist country and former enemy, settling in Vung Tau. The wartime base for Australian forces during the ...

History. Australia’s Vietnam: Myth vs History. Mark Dapin. NewSouth, $32.99. American sociologist and Vietnam veteran Jerry Lembcke published The Spitting Image in 1998. Lembcke had long felt ...

An elderly Vietnam veteran from Adelaide, Australia was downgraded from his paid Qantas business class seat on Sunday so a young pilot could travel in luxury to the South Australian capital.

The Physical and Mental Health of Australian Vietnam Veterans 3 Decades After the War and its Relation to Military Service, Combat, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. American Journal of ...

The Long Shadow: Vietnam, Australia’s veterans and the guilt of Agent Orange. The notion that Australian troops in Vietnam were poisoned by American chemicals had a delicious poetry for the left.

Eric Lee was one of 23 candidates for U.S. citizenship who took the oath last August in a ceremony at Spokane’s federal ...

The Australian Vietnam War veteran enjoys it so much that one day in 2006, his wife Anne suggested that he put a hole in the yard of their sprawling 52-acre property.

The truth behind the ‘spitting myth’ that divided Vietnam veterans and anti-war activists. It’s long been said that Vietnam veterans were spat at by activists on returning to Australia.

John Bryant and Luke Johnston, pictured with some of the Vietnam War's surviving veterans. ( Supplied: Luke Johnston ) In Vietnam, veterans who died in the war are called martyrs.