108 vs 2,000 - The Chilling Deathtrap Hidden in the Rubber Trees

[@jeffm4491]

❤😢RIP Soldiers Australian 🇦🇺 Thank You for your sacrifice and courage

[@HomeMadeBoards]

Danger Close - Best Aussie War Movie - Get on it.

[@1208bug]

Wow, what a story and the telling of it!

[@jordanhutchinson7324]

Dude it’s a.i…

[@HighSpeedNoDrag]

@@jordanhutchinson7324 That's a Negative.

[@davefellhoelter1343]

Thanks! Had family with skin in the game, never knew of this battle in detail. Thank YOU!

[@Vimanas.8209]

Yesssss. My favourite. The BATTLE that Made the Australians into LEGENDS.

[@allandavis8201]

I agree that the Australian forces, or more accurately the ANZACs, were and are legends, but not just because of this battle, they were legends since their exploits in WWI and from then onwards and still are legends today, and they never get the recognition they deserve.

[@wayneorellana2549]

The Artillery was from New Zealand.

[@drmarkintexas-400]

🎖️🙏🏆⭐ Thank you for sharing this

[@seanlander9321]

The VC never engaged in a prepared battle with the Australians after Long Tan, which proves the undisputed winner.

[@TomasFunes-rt8rd]

In the final year of the war, the Aussies were walking around the province UNARMED.

[@lesklower7281]

The battle of Long Tan has gone down in Australian Military history with legendary status

[@andrewostrelczuk406]

Dear Dark , You may be slightly Redeemed! But the poor quality Click bait you were posting recently was Garbage. It’s with pleasure that I say Welcome back!!!😊 And as an Old NCO, I counsel, let’s not Ever Do Anything like that again! You run a lot of channels, Dark Sky’s, Dark Seas, Dark Doc’s etc… but never forget how much importance must be placed on facts and figures, descriptions and real life stories. Keep it simple, straightforward and fun to watch. Don’t overthink things or just make Fluff, that’s Garbage 2 high quality videos mean more than 5 junk content ones. And be sure to check the Video reflects your content. And slow down the time sprints of the pictures. Personal experience with Briefings in power point (long ago) makes me believe that slow transition is organized and that makes it fast! Chaos is unpredictable and unexpected and does nothing for the viewer. Except for them to back up and replay parts that should have been done better! Happy New Year!

[@nzsaltflatsracer8054]

This young fella can sure tell a story!

[@vincentcarmine8731]

Some of the Artillery from New Zealand, but more importantly, the New Zealand forward Arti observers offered to go with the Australians who didn’t trust the US forward observers or artillery, the observers used the US artillery to hit further out from the front line where the VC would likely be forming up for their attacks and directed the NZ and Aust artillery to target in close - some times within 50m , it was the observers that were vital as well as very well drilled artillery units using 105’s for close work and US 155’s for further away

[@voyloa]

Australians were correct in their approach, this is why Britain and Australia beat the Communists in Malaya, then there was the US fiasco.

[@rcstl8815]

Our politicians created the fiasco. They always tie one of the military's arms behind their back.

[@TheMenagerie-bb5mr]

Yes our politicians just wanted out.

[@BOCFiend]

I think the big difference was the British and Australians let their militaries fight while our government interfered (and still do)

[@charlesbey8636]

U.S. Fiasco? John Wayne was sick that day or sumpin?

[@emmanuelawosusi2365]

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[@allandavis8201]

According to what I have read the Australian Radar control system was operational for the entire battle, that is according to one of the signals intelligence regiment officers who was involved in the operation of the artillery and specifically the artillery radar system.

[@terrymarshall3377]

The Australians did not have to fight the big battles because the Americans and South Vietnamese were doing that part of the war. The Australians were tough and extremely good soldiers and they would have done well anywhere they were sent. If they had been where the Americans fought big battles against well trained, well equipped North Vietnamese Army with long range artillery they would have done like the Americans or be wiped out. To compare the Malay Emergency to Vietnam is just about as ignorant as you can be. Malaysia is a long Ismas and easily sealed off from supplies if any one wanted to help them which they didn't because they were already bogged down in Korea. There were so few enemy to fight they did not even call them a Army. They called them bandits. Vietnam had a massive long border with a highway system alongside it where huge convoys of trucks brought in millions of tons of supplies from China, Russia, and many other Soviet block countries. Our fiasco was letting politicians and the news media run the war. The people of South Vietnam suffered terribly while the people of the North who caused it all were not Llowed to be inconvenienced.

[@rtyrsson]

100% correct on the politicians and the news media. On several occasions the war was all but won and could have been over with a free Vietnam.

[@timsparks1858]

The Approach Brought on the Generals by politicians of Attrition instead of Taking North Vietnam itself was the decisive factor to close the war to Victory. War is taking their territory and holding it destroying their Army so it can't fight any more. Holding South Vietnam playing defense when the Enemy is on Offense is Nonsense.

[@rtyrsson]

@@timsparks1858 Twice it could have been won if the politicians had any will: after Tet and during/after Operation Rolling Thunder. But instead of following through, Kissinger sold South Vietnam out to make nice with the Chinese; and sold out Taiwan in the process.

[@emmanuelawosusi2365]

Great video

[@OmarKhanUK]

"Danger Close - Battle of Long Tan"

[@kerrygibbs8198]

Good story. You cheapen yourself by haven’t a photo that when clicked on has nothing to do with the story.

[@dwaynekoblitz6032]

Once upon a LIFETIME ago my ship had Australia as a port of call. Sadly Iraq/Iran sucked. And off to the Gulf we went. Dammit. We'd heard endless tales of how well American sailors were treated by Aussie women. Damn. Every war Australians have ALWAYS been so bad ass!!

[@BadlydrawnBen]

Is this the story told in the movie danger close ?

[@grahambaker6664]

Yes

[@jockmarshall7601]

D Coy 6 RAR was led by MAJ Harry Smith, Not SGT Bob Buick.

[@elohimchhakchhuak.9484]

lets go

[@iawy8264]

When men where MEN 🥉

[@johnniethepom7545]

If I had half their courage . . .

[@StephenKarch]

Its Obay or Disobay, you can get Executed for that in Wartime.

[@partygrove5321]

Obey

[@stevemchadd]

No one wins in war! Everyone looses. (Edit) Nothing has changed, we still learn nothing from the past..

[@kpskingdom]

The majority of those Aussie diggers at the battle of Long Tan were from Springwood New South Wales.

[@johnniethepom7545]

Maybe some should document their accounts while the few left remain .

[@kpskingdom]

@@johnniethepom7545 Every year there is a big march through Macquarie St Springwood on "Long Tan" Day. I moved in 1999 from Springwood, now I am in Canberra 10 minutes from the Australian War Memorial

[@johnniethepom7545]

@kpskingdom I live in the Western suburbs and head up the mountain to visit my son in Katoomba. I've been to Canberra for the Dawn Service twice. The second times I got 10 points and a hefty fine when I just touched my phone to check which junction I had to leave the Hume at ! This year, I'll go to the service at Springwood.

[@kpskingdom]

@@johnniethepom7545 Check the date please, I think it is in August around the 12- 20th, but then again My brain has been damaged due to Multiple Sclerosis and my memory is not as it should be.

[@robertmiller2173]

Go the ANZACs…….yes the New Zealanders were there beside our Aussie Cousins!

[@iamnotarobot2378]

Artillery was New Zealand.

[@karlwilke]

Who's is new Zealand?

[@CharlesGann1]

Wish the US would have adhered to the Australians and British experience in Malaya

[@jelkel25]

The Brits were consulted and then mocked if I remember correctly. It's pretty common, the Brits didn't listen to the French at the beginning of WW1, the Americans didn't listen to the Brits beginning of WW2. The Brits refused to get involved in Vietnam, the Americans weren't going to listen to them.

[@TheFunkhouser]

The viet cong didnt like fighting the Australians. Theyd rather fight the Americans

[@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd]

⚛❤

[@brodyberry6253]

Very interesting! Thank you for another top notch video sir. 🫡

[@Hipporider]

Thanks for showing this about our Diggers. My uncle rolled up too late with the APCs, I remember him telling me the guilt he felt, which was not warranted. If not for the Kiwi Artillery, all our lads would have been dead. The NZ arty were that good, very accurate. 🫡🫡🇦🇺