In fact, some of the fiercest, and important battles of the Vietnam War were fought by Australian troops. These battles helped to stave off massive and potentially disastrous attacks on some of the largest air bases in the South, such as the strategic air base, Bien Hoa.
(During the 1968 Tet Offensive, Bien Hoa air base was attacked in the wee hours of the start of the Vietnamese New Year. The base defenders -- Air Force Security Police -- were outnumbered 5 to 1, but held on to repel the determined enemy forces with the help of Army gunships and choppers loaded with rockets and machine-guns. Five cops were killed (KIA), and forty-six wounded (WIA). For their actions, the Security Police were awarded the following: the Air Force Cross, 3 Silver Stars, and 13 Bronze Stars with "V" for valor. I am proud of my brother cops, and I remember the 111 cops KIA during the Vietnam War.)
Not only did my Australian brothers help to defeat -- yes defeat! -- the overwhelming enemy forces that surrounded their firebases and forward command centers, but also showed the bias, leftist propaganda media back in the U.S. AND Australia. The war was in the process of being won, as the Communist forces were suffering dramatic defeats throughout the South. But that's not what the media reported. The traitors that helped to humiliate the U.S., continue to this day, to undermine our Republic and its duly elected president.
In the end, the U.S. and its allies had to pull out of Vietnam due to political, not military, pressures enhanced by the Communist sympathizers in the U.S. and other countries.
But the memories remain, and I remember and pray for my brothers that were KIA, and those POWs and MIA and their families... We met as strangers, but became, and remain, brothers...
Pray for our country...
Gene DeLalla
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