Writing
Vietnam War, 1966. Australia and New Zealand send troops to support the United States and South Vietnamese in their fight against the communist North. Soldiers are very young men, recruits and volunteers who have never been involved in a combat. On August 18th, members of Delta Company will face the true horror of a ruthless battle among the trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tân. They are barely a hundred. The enemy is a human wave ready to destroy them.
When day becomes night, a strict curfew forces ordinary people to go pedal to the metal in a deadly race for freedom. During this contest, alliances and friendships are both made and lost.
In the gathering dusk of 18 August 1966, 108 young, inexperienced Australian and NZ soldiers are separated and surrounded, fighting for their lives, holding off an overwhelming force of 2,500 battle-hardened Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers. And, in the pouring rain, amid the mud and shattered trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tan, with their ammunition running out and another Vietnamese battalion massing for the final assault, the digger's situation seemed hopeless. Long Tan is the true story of ordinary boys who became extraordinary men.
See TMDB entry for "Battle of Long Tan" & http://battleoflongtan.com FOR THREE AND A HALF HOURS, 108 ANZAC’S OF DELTA COMPANY 6RAR, FOUGHT AND DEFEATED AN ENEMY FORCE OF 2,500 MAIN FORCE VIET CONG AND NORTH VIETNAMESE SOLDIERS, IN A RUBBER PLANTATION CALLED LONG TAN IN PHUOC TUY PROVINCE, SOUTH VIETNAM.
