Australian/New Zealand Use of M16 Rifle in Vietnam?

[Peter Laidler]

It's a film. Long Tan was still firmly embedded in the memory of the Australians and Kiwis and thereafter it was a STEEP learning curve. Not just that but Oz and NZ had recently got control of Puc Touy province and D445 from operating from the old Saigon airport area (was it Tan Son Nuht???)....... Mind you, it also gave the VC a bloody nose too - eventually. They realised that we could be reinforced too.