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The Australian Army Training Team Vietnam arrived in South Vietnam and it was the start of Australias involvement in the Vietnam War.
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Australia dispatched the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR) to serve alongside the US 173d Airborne Brigade in Bien Hoa province.
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the Government announced the dispatch of a taskforce to replace 1RAR, it consisted of 2 battalions and support services, they would be based at Nui Dat, Phuoc Tuy province.
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6RAR was engadged in Australia's heviest action of the war in a rubber plantation near Long Tan.
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The third RAAF squadron was deployed to south vietnam.
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The RAN contributed a clerance diving team and helicopter detachment that operated with the US Army.
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A major offensive by the Vient Cong and the North Vietnamese Army launched during the Vietnamese lunar holiday.
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An Anti-war protest began and the people were begenning to think that the war could no be won so they started a "Don't Register" campaign to persuade young men from joining the army.
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The US and South Vietnemese troops were orded to cross the border into cambodia.
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All nine RAR battalions served in the taskforce at one time or another, before it was withdrawn in 1971.
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The withdrawall of troops continued through out 1971.
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The last battalion left Nui Dat while a handful of advisers belonging to the Team remained in Vietnam the following year.
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They were the last troops to come home.
