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Janurary 31: Half past midnight, on a wednesday morning, is the first day of the Tet Offensive.
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February 1: A vietnamese security official shot a Viet Cong prisioner while being caught on film.
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February 7: Reporters arrive at the city of Ben Tre.
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February 18: The most casualties occured on this date. 543 Americans were killed the previous week.
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February 27: Walter Cronkite reports on the recent trip he took to Vietnam. He talked about the aftermath of the Tet Offensive.
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March 16: US troops rampage through the hamlet of My Lai and kill over 500 vietnamese people. They varied from small newborns to the oldest of them all.
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April 11: The USSD, the United States Secretary of Defense call 24,500 military reserves to fight for a 2 year commitment.
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May 3: The US and North Vietnamese leaders agree to talk about peace later in the month.
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3RAR returned home in October 1971 followed in December by 4RAR and the Royal Australian Air force’s No. 9 Squadron.
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Some logistics personnel and the last of No. 35 Squadron’s Caribou aircraft left early in 1972.
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Second Lieutenant Bill Denny, 86 Transport Platoon, RAASC, was with one of the last Australian units to leave Vietnam in February 1972.
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South. United States airpower, rather than the ARVN, stopped the North Vietnamese. A massive United States bombing campaign against the North followed in December 1972.
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In 1975, when the North Vietnamese Army again launched a major offensive against the South, the ARVN forces, this time without United States air support or supplies, were overwhelmed. South Vietnam descended into chaos as civilians fled and thousands of ARVN troops and officers deserted. RAAF personnel returned to Vietnam during these fraught days to help evacuate civilians and transport humanitarian supplies. They counted among their number the last Australian service personnel to leave Vietna
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The South capitulated in late April 1975, bringing the war in Vietnam to an end and ushering in an era of Communist rule.