the vietnam war

  • In 1967 factions within the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese leadership began to call for a change of direction in the war’s conduct

  • more then 100 cities attacked and taken over by Australian Army

  • The Tet Offensive, launched in early 1968 by the Viet Cong

  • In May 1968, just 4 months later, peace talks attended by representatives of North and South Vietnam,

  • In 1969 Nixon announced that the withdrawal of American troops was a priority

  • In April 1970 the Australian Prime Minister, John Gorton, announced that the 8th Battalion

  • Early in 1971 Australia’s Joint Intelligence Organisation, reporting on the progress of Vietnamisation

  • Australia’s last two battalions to serve in Vietnam, the 3rd and 4th Battalions, Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR and 4RAR) arrived in 1971

  • 35 Squadron’s Caribou aircraft left early in 1972

  • 86 Transport Platoon, RAASC, was with one of the last Australian units to leave Vietnam in February 1972.