• The Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment contributed companies to the 1st Australian Task Force, deployed in Phước Tuy Province, Republic of Vietnam (South...
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  • The Royal Australian Regiment (RAR) is the parent administrative regiment for regular infantry battalions of the Australian Army and is the senior infantry...
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    The 1st New Zealand Special Air Service Regiment, abbreviated as 1 NZSAS Regt, is the special forces unit of the New Zealand Army, closely modelled on...
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    Queensland, on 6 June 1965 and has since then served in a number of overseas deployments and conflicts including South Vietnam, East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan...
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    7th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (7 RAR) is a regular infantry battalion of the Australian Army. It was originally raised in 1965 as part of Australia's...
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    The 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (3 RAR) is a mechanised infantry battalion of the Australian Army, based in Kapyong Lines, Townsville as part...
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    (Victor One Company) was deployed to Vietnam from the 1st Battalion of the Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment in Malaysia. The first Victor Company...
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    (2017). The Vietnam War: An Intimate History. Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-307-70025-4. "Chapter 2, US Ground Strategy and Force Deployments, 1965–1968". The...
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    The 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (2 RAR) is an amphibious light infantry battalion of the Australian Army part of the 1st Division Amphibious...
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    Company Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment Vietnam 1967: The Originals) 'Royal New Zealand Artillery cravat', URL: https://vietnamwar.govt.nz/photo/royal...
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    assistance in non-combat roles. Australia deployed approximately three battalions of infantry, one regiment of Centurion tanks, three RAAF Squadrons (2SQN...
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    April 1965 decision to upgrade its military commitment to South Vietnam's security. By the time the last Australian personnel were withdrawn in 1972, the...
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    In 1965, the United States rapidly increased its military forces in South Vietnam, prompted by the realization that the South Vietnamese government was...
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    Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (4 RAR) was an infantry battalion (later a special forces unit) of the Australian Army, forming part of the Royal Australian...
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    1972 in the Vietnam War saw foreign involvement in South Vietnam slowly declining. Three allies, Australia, New Zealand and Thailand, which had each contributed...
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    the Royal Thai Volunteer Regiment (Queen's Cobras) was sent to Camp Bearcat at Bien Hoa, to fight alongside the Americans, Australians, New Zealanders and...
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  • the Scorpion Stings: The History of the 3rd Cavalry Regiment, Vietnam, 19651972. Crows Nest, New South Wales: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1-86508-743-2. Beurich...
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    On 27 May 1965 Holyoake, announced the government's decision to send 161 Battery, Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery to South Vietnam in a combat...
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  • Battalion ("5/6 RVR") is one of two battalions of the Royal Victoria Regiment, and is an infantry battalion of the Australian Army. The battalion traces...
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    Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment and the 161st Battery, Royal New Zealand Artillery were attached to the brigade for one year in 1965. Late in August...
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    and Royal Regiment of Scotland; or an entire arm of service, e.g. the Royal Australian Regiment includes all of the Australian Army's regular infantry (other...
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    3rd/4th Cavalry Regiment. 6th New South Wales Mounted Rifles. Transferred as 6th New South Wales Mounted Rifles to the Royal Australian Infantry Corps in 1956...
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    Australia began by sending advisors to Vietnam in 1962, and combat troops were committed in 1965.: 555–558  New Zealand began by sending a detachment of engineers...
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    extensive action during the Vietnam War and over 600 were deployed with U.S. forces. They played an important role in infantry support though there were...
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    important role in Australia's commitment to the Vietnam War between 1965 and 1972. Some M113s were deployed as part of peacekeeping missions in Somalia during...
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  • of the deployment of an infantry battalion group (1st Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment) to South Vietnam on 29 April 1965, the regiment was tasked...
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    People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) numbered 400,000, most still in North Vietnam. 50,000 PAVN cadre and soldiers infiltrated South Vietnam during 1965. Group 559...
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    "Peacekeeping deployments". airforce.mil.nz. "History: NZDF Involvement in Bosnia-Herzegovina". New Zealand Defence Force: Deployments. Archived from...
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  • Between May 1965 and June 1966, 161 Battery, 16 Field Regiment, Royal New Zealand Artillery served as part of the US 173rd Airborne Brigade in Vietnam. For its...
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    (2002). In the ANZAC Spirit: The Fourth Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment/NZ (ANZAC): South Vietnam 1968 to 1969. Slouch Hat Publications. p. 155. ISBN 0-95797521X...
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