AAP General News (Australia)
08-18-2010
FED:Gillard honours war veterans
PERTH, Aug 18 AAP - Prime Minister Julia Gillard has laid a wreath at a war memorial
in Perth in honour of Vietnam Veterans Day.
On the 44th anniversary of Long Tan - the best known action of Australia's decade in
Vietnam - Ms Gillard inspected the war memorial alongside Defence Minister John Faulkner
and former Labor MP and Vietnam veteran Graham Edwards.
Ms Gillard then went on a walk through the war memorial gardens inspecting other memorials.
The battle of Long Tan was fought on August 18, 1966 when 108 members of Delta company,
six Battalion (6 RAR) encountered a vastly superior North Vietnamese force, repelling
a series of attacks until the enemy finally withdrew.
Eighteen Australians died in the bitter fighting.
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