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Americas traditional list of allies joined us in trying to contain the spread of communism in south east asia, including taiwan, south korea, and australia. I accept that there are no absolutes in this, and i accept that the north was not lily white. Australia military records genealogy familysearch wiki. It has been written by the lead australian official historian, peter edwards, as a short history to summarise the more expansive nine volume official history of australias involvement in southeast asian conflicts 19481975. Where i parted company was with the authors convoluted attempts to justify the war from a south vietnamese point of view. The war provoked deep divisions in australian society and politics, particularly since for the first time young men were conscripted for overseas service in a highly contentious ballot system. The vietnam war, also known as the second indochina war, and known in vietnam as resistance war against america or simply the american war, was a war that occurred in vietnam, laos. Vietnam era trubal bowie axemade by harry mcevoy during the war.
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