The unit that then-Pilot Officer Thynne served with was RAAF No. 9 Squadron, which was created in 1939 and saw active service ...

It’s a day that brings Australians together, but at the same time our responses to it can be uniquely personal.

Grandpa served in World War Two, and Dad served in the Vietnam War. Afterwards ... I served 16 years in the military, six of those in the Australian SAS. I’ve led troops into combat, cleared ...

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Now former Special Air Service Regiment (SASR ... 75th anniversary of Australian service in the Korean War, and 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War”. Asked what he feels when he looks ...

The 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon highlighted Vietnam’s emergence as a key economic player in the region.

This, one of the Vietnam War’s most famous images, was captured by Australian Army photographer Michael Coleridge on 26 August 1967. The photograph – which shows members of 5 Platoon, B Company, 7RAR ...

As the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment began its year-long deployment to South Vietnam in 1965, young Norman John Rowe thought he had the world at his feet. Blessed with a strong tenor voice, ...

More than 30 years ago, as Vietnam was just opening up, Mark Bowyer pioneered efforts to bring the first Australian tourists to the country. In the early 1990s Bowyer and his friend were considering ...