Danger Close is a very good recent movie on this. The artillery support was mainly 161 Battery Royal New Zealand Artillery Regiment.

Just recently had the chance to visit the long tan battle field. The cross and memorial site is simple and well done. Being an ex militarily person. I found this to be a very emotional ...and quiet ...peaceful. Our Vietnamese guide was very passionate about the the entire battle zone....I take my hat off to him. He is trying very hard to preserve what little remains of the nui dat base. Sad to see its almost all gone. Lets not forget a very important australian battle site.

I can see tears in your eyes. I feel your heart breaking. It's very emotional walking through the battlefield.

Thank you Australian soldiers who fought with both my Uncle's generation of Vietnam!! Australian soldiers have a reputation of one of the world's finest infantrymen. Thank you guys!!!

Mate.... Not nitpicking but in Vietnamese the joint is called Long Tan (pronounced Lom T Air N)... So, in English we use the traditional English word, LONG and use the Vietnamese pronunciation TAN not TARN as you are saying... I lived in Vietnam for almost a decade and have explored this area many times, meeting locals and talking about what they know.. Its a special area.

Currently reading Peter Fitzsimmons book and being able to see the battlefield has helped a lot. Thank you for sharing.

Another exceptional video Mat. Keep up the great work.

My knowledge of Vietnam War is poor but watching this video has enhanced my knowledge, thanks Mat !!

My grandfather is in the battle of long tan

I highly recommend this tour, an amazing experience

Great video, thank you very much.

my son has trained with the auzzies excellent soldiers matt from canada

Nice vid mate. My mates in vt keep to the up keep of the memorial there.. Brad.. Charlie.. And a few more the aussie boys.. Respect brothers

Appreciate & enjoyed this video, would liked to have visited this historical sight of The battlefield of Long Tan, unfortunately Covid 19 prevents that happening! Thankyou for sharing.

Christ, this took me by surprise. How chilling it would be to walk there.

My partner and I had the honour and privilege to have a private visit to Nui Dat and Long Tan in 2018. Our guide was a most informed, interesting, insightful and respectful Vietnamese man. We could understand if he held an unconscious and subtle bias against Australians visiting but alas he had no such demeanour. Before leaving for Nui Dat, we observed him making any number of planning phone calls prior to our departure for Long Tan and on arriving at the local Long Tan People's Committee Office, he asked for our passports so that he could obtain the necessary permits for us to visit the cross. Local authority permission must be obtained to visit the cross and that is what all the phone calls were seeking to achieve. As he left the People's Committee Office and was returning to our vehicle, i could see he was holding some papers and a bouquet of yellow flowers. As he rejoined us he informed that the papers were the necessary permission and that the flowers were for my partner and i to place at the cross. What i never anticipated or expected was for him to hand to me the brass memorial plaque, which we would hang on the cross on our arrival. I will never forget driving from the Long Tan People's Committee Office to the cross with the brass plaque sitting on my lap. I felt a great sense of duty, responsibility, humility and respect. The local Peoples Committee do not allow the plaque to be fixed to the cross so that it is held safely, respectfully and securely. Respect to all on both sides of this battle, may we be friends evermore. Lest We Forget 💐

I found it a very sad place , could not get away rom the overriding feeling of gloom . I had a similar experience a week later when our tour group stopped at the scene of the My Lai massacre. Odd

RIP all you brave souls

hi Mat. i live in VT. who is the guide you had with you? i would like to get in touch with him, to learn of local history of that battle. cheers

Rubber trees have about a 20 year life span, I was there in 93 & surrounded by heavy rubber trees, Visited again in 2003 & it was all saplings, wanted to climb the Horseshoe in 93 but Army engineers had it all red taped as they were clearing mines & UBX's from the area, tried again in 2003 & again off limits as they were blowing it up to use as road fill.

Great video. Would love to metal detect there.

Nice video. Much respect to all. I must point out 2 things. It was not the VC but som did take part but most were regular NVA battalions 3 in all. Nui Dat 2 was some 1000 mtrs from the battle

The dust on your shoes was very profound.

Old soldiers never die, they just fade away

So the cross will be removed once they built the new airport there?

Poor terrain for a head to head fight. Both sides would take lots of casualties. The defenders actually have the advantage if dug in securely.

From my knowledge ( I may be wrong) Nui Dat 2 was actually the location of the Australian Task Force Base. The other Mountains look more like the Long Hai’s to me. The VC/NVA we’re operating from relatively flat ground, not from a hill. I will stand corrected of course. 😎

Thanks I'm a kiwi 🥝 and great video

Is it safe to walk around there? I would imagine the have unexploded ordnance?

Its surprising that the VC soldiers would set up positions on a small raised area like you show. That's the first place you'd expect enemy artillery to shred. The kiwi and Australian artillery would of already been ranged on all places like that within the range of their guns.

Been listening to your podcasts. Question (and I have so many). The viet forces were well armed maybe better so than the AU forces plus so many more soldiers. Why did they not just change tactics away from narrow focus wave after wave and simply spread the 100 or so diggers, which would have rendered artillery useless and possibly spread the Aussies so thin, they would regroup back to back? Second question, at that point, why not just charge the base 5km ahead? Was Long Tan poorly executed by the Viet forces or did the diggers simply pull off the impossible? Keen to do a battlefield visit with you to appreciate this topic more. Great podcasts.

I did a few videos of the old memorial, before they moved it (I know one of the guys that helped, as he'd served there);kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oLCbh9B7lamblH0.html

Very nice been there a few times but please even the locals don’t call it tarn it’s tan(kiwi shell fire brother as with Kapyong Korea)but thank you regardless

If you are going to do a commentary & a guided tour of the battlefield & especially if you are going to make money from it, please pronounce the name correctly. It is Long Tan, not Long Tarn, as you incorrectly pronounce it. I spent six years in the Australian Regular Army, as an Infantry soldier. I did two tours of South Vietnam with 3 RAR & in my time in country did quite a few TAOR patrols to Long Tan. Up until this video which you have uploaded, I have never heard it mis-pronounced as Long Tarn. Out of respect to the soldiers on both sides & out of respect for your viewers, please get it right. Dennis Moore, 3RAR Vietnam: 1967 1968; 1971.

Is there any sort of monument to the North Vietnam soldiers that fought there that day?

Does anyone know why metal helmets weren't used in this battle instead of cotton made?

The first battery where New Zealand with they 155 mm howitzers.

did you happen to find out where the Aussies involved in the battle buried their enemy fighters? psd in the making .

Interesting video, skip the background music when you’re talking.

Pointless loss of life. It's good to remember their bravery but still be angry that they were thrown away like that. Good men, too good to die far from home.

May be you should have read a history book or 2 before making this video. The dam shown at the beginning of the video was, at the time of the battle a river that the troops, and latter the APCs had to cross. The other thing before turning this off is that the forces the Australians and New Zealander fought were NVA regulars, NOT Viet Cong.

"Tan" not "Tarn"

Whats with the annoying "on hold" phone music ?