This new three-part documentary series is the story of the Australian Army Training Team (Vietnam) who, from 1962 to 1972, fought shoulder-to-shoulder with the Vietnamese army and became the most decorated unit of the Vietnam War.
In 1962, the Australian government dispatched a unit of 30 advisers to Vietnam to support the South Vietnamese government’s war against a guerrilla insurgency led by communist North Vietnam. In Vietnam 3 years before the regular Australian army, the AATTV trained and eventually fought with the South Vietnamese Army, US Special Forces, the CIA and a number of tribal units. The AATTV or ‘The Team’ as it became known, were the first Australians to fight in Vietnam and, ten years later, the last to leave.
During the course of the war, The Team was awarded 4 Victoria Crosses and a multitude of other decorations. It is, to this day, the most highly decorated unit of the Vietnam War.
In 1962, the Australian government dispatched a unit of 30 advisers to Vietnam to support the South Vietnamese government’s war against a guerrilla insurgency led by communist North Vietnam. In Vietnam 3 years before the regular Australian army, the AATTV trained and eventually fought with the South Vietnamese Army, US Special Forces, the CIA and a number of tribal units. The AATTV or ‘The Team’ as it became known, were the first Australians to fight in Vietnam and, ten years later, the last to leave.
During the course of the war, The Team was awarded 4 Victoria Crosses and a multitude of other decorations. It is, to this day, the most highly decorated unit of the Vietnam War.
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