Australia's
Vietnam War

Explore more than six thousand recorded contacts on an interactive map, read the stories behind them, and remember the people who served.

Open the Battle Map

Features

The War, Phase by Phase

What Australian forces did from 1965 to 1971, and why: a timeline from the war's phases down to its operations, its months and single actions, each with the way to it on the Battle Map.

Explore the timeline

Honour Roll

The names and faces of those who died, as a wall of portraits: find them by service, corps, unit, home state or name, and lay a poppy.

See the honour roll

The war of each of the 17 major Australian units, from the infantry battalions to the artillery, armour, engineers and the Air Force's helicopters: what each did, where, and at what cost, with the roll of honour and photographs from the operations.

Read the unit histories

Building for Hearts and Minds

The Civil Affairs Unit's schools, wells, windmills, dispensaries and houses in Phuoc Tuy and Vung Tau: what was built, what it cost, who built it, and how the Task Force and the unit supported each other.

Read about civil affairs

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