A Very Close Thing - Battle of Long Tan - Campaign Series Vietnam 1948-1967
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| SM: | 3 |
| Turns: | 20 |
| Type: | Stock |
| First Side: | Australia |
| Second Side: | N. Vietnam |
Jason Petho
18 August, 1966
[Long Tan Plantation, Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam]: [SIDE A] [HIS] [CSL]:
As part of the commitment to the Free World Forces to be engaged in Vietnam, elements of the 1st Australian Task Force (1 ATF) began arriving between April and June 1966, constructing a base at Nui Dat.
Following the establishment of 1ATF's Nui Dat base in Operation Hardihood, standing patrols were established outside the base in the evening and clearing patrols sent out every morning and evening along the 12-kilometre perimeter.
Australian signals intelligence (SIGINT) had tracked the 275th Regiment moving to a position just north of Long Tan. By 16 August, the PAVN were positioned near Long Tan outside the range of the artillery at Nui Dat.
On the night of 16/17 August, mortars, recoilless rifles (RCLs) attacked Nui Dat from a position 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) to the east, which damaged the base and wounding 24 and killing 1, until a counter-battery caused it to cease.
Although the VC were expected to have withdrawn, several company patrols would be dispatched the following morning to search the area east of Nui Dat in response.
The next morning B Company, 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (6 RAR), departed Nui Dat to locate the firing points and the direction of the VC withdrawal and weapon pits were found including mortars and RCLs.
B Company patrols of the area revealed nothing and consequently did not expect to meet significant opposition.
D Company, 6 RAR had been given updated orders to relieve B Company the next day to continue the search into the Long Tam Plantation.
At 13:00, the 108-man D Company met up with B Company on the edge of the Long Tan Plantation where D Company subsequently took over the pursuit. Contact was made in the early afternoon of August 18th with the Viet Cong 275th Regiment, who in turn started to attack the Australians in progressively stronger waves, which turned into a very close engagement where D Company was nearly overrun.
[ALL, NO VV] [CSEE, Variable Objectives] [1.00]
18 August, 1966
[Long Tan Plantation, Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam]: [SIDE A] [HIS] [CSL]:
As part of the commitment to the Free World Forces to be engaged in Vietnam, elements of the 1st Australian Task Force (1 ATF) began arriving between April and June 1966, constructing a base at Nui Dat.
Following the establishment of 1ATF's Nui Dat base in Operation Hardihood, standing patrols were established outside the base in the evening and clearing patrols sent out every morning and evening along the 12-kilometre perimeter.
Australian signals intelligence (SIGINT) had tracked the 275th Regiment moving to a position just north of Long Tan. By 16 August, the PAVN were positioned near Long Tan outside the range of the artillery at Nui Dat.
On the night of 16/17 August, mortars, recoilless rifles (RCLs) attacked Nui Dat from a position 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) to the east, which damaged the base and wounding 24 and killing 1, until a counter-battery caused it to cease.
Although the VC were expected to have withdrawn, several company patrols would be dispatched the following morning to search the area east of Nui Dat in response.
The next morning B Company, 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (6 RAR), departed Nui Dat to locate the firing points and the direction of the VC withdrawal and weapon pits were found including mortars and RCLs.
B Company patrols of the area revealed nothing and consequently did not expect to meet significant opposition.
D Company, 6 RAR had been given updated orders to relieve B Company the next day to continue the search into the Long Tam Plantation.
At 13:00, the 108-man D Company met up with B Company on the edge of the Long Tan Plantation where D Company subsequently took over the pursuit. Contact was made in the early afternoon of August 18th with the Viet Cong 275th Regiment, who in turn started to attack the Australians in progressively stronger waves, which turned into a very close engagement where D Company was nearly overrun.
[ALL, NO VV] [CSEE, Variable Objectives] [1.00]
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