![]() Man from SA killed in Vietnam.' First Australian conscript to be killed photo. ![]() NS 'Ballot to be secret.'ġ1 March 1965, p.2. 'Major build-up of defences.' 4,200 men in call-up next year birthday lottery for two years full-time service, conscripts liable for service anywhere.ġ0 March 1965, p.1 col. 'Australians in South Vietnam clashes.' Increase in AATTV to 60 plus 20 specialists.ġ1 November 1964, pp.1, 10, 11. 'Australians take hand in jungle war.' To train Vietnamese troopsġ1 June 1964, p.1. '30 for Vietnam.' 30 Australian Army jungle warfare experts-Australian Army Training Team Vietnam.Ĥ August 1962, p.2 cols. ![]() 'If South Vietnam asks.Australia will send aid.' Combat troops would not be sent.restricted to a handful of experts.perhaps only four. You can learn more about this conflict at the Australian War Memorial. Many draft resisters, conscientious objectors, and protesters were fined or jailed, while soldiers met a hostile reception on their return home. The war was the cause of the greatest social and political dissent in Australia since the conscription referendums of the First World War. There were 521 Australian casualties and over 3,000 were wounded as a result of the war. Of these approximately 19,000 were conscripts as, through the 1965 amendments to the Defence Act, men conscripted by ballot under the National Service Scheme could be required to serve overseas. In April 1965 Prime Minister Menzies announced the commitment of the first Australian combat troops, and between 19 approximately 60,000 Australians served with the army, air and naval forces in the Vietnam War. In the face of the escalating civil war in Vietnam the US sent its first combat troops in 1964, and this was built up to a force of half a million. In May 1962, Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies announced that a small group of military advisers, expert in jungle warfare, would also assist the South Vietnamese government. ![]() The United States (US) pledged its support for the South, and initially sent military advisers. Local communists, supported by North Vietnam, continued to confront the South Vietnamese government. The country was then divided into the separate states of North Vietnam, with a communist government, and South Vietnam. ![]() The defeat of the French army at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954 by communist led forces ended French control of Vietnam. ![]()
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