The Battle of Binh Ba

[MusicMadMaurice]

@ 2:15 there is a shot of an APC commander in his 2-gun turret. Can anyone confirm the weapon he has next to him? It looks like an AK47.

[AustWarMemorial]

@MusicMadMaurice

The weapon on the deck of the cupola of the AFV is a Russian AK 47 or more likely its Chinese equivalent - CHICOM Type 56. I hope this helps.

[paulusvux]

A devastating war in Binh Ba, while Australia has more troops than fire.

[marcusp540]

130 enemy dead and 8 captured for the loss of 1 brave digger. I remember years ago seeing an interview with a top NVA General who said, when asked why he thought the communists won the war, replied "we were always prepared to loose 1 more soldier; the Americans weren't "

[romanlegions]

Just wondering, the issuing of the M16s over the SL1 are decided by what basis? Were they special assault troops? Mechanized infantry or just a first-come-first-serve basis?

[Stumperx]

@romanlegions, Out of a section of 10 men, the corporal had an M16, the rifle group had SLR's, the gun group had the M60. They also would have a shotgun. This was standard for regular army. They were not mechanized infantry, just regular army infantry. The APC's were their own group that supported the infantry during operations.

[FairladyS130]

Great action footage, Centurion FTW.

[PrivateJoker17]

At 1:56 the soldier is holding what appears to be an M-16A1 with an M203 grenade launcher attatchment. I thought the XM148 was the grenade launcher attatchment of that time and even if it is an XM148 which it doesn't appear to be that would be a rarity among regular infantry in itself.

[bookeater]

My dad was a field enginieer and was in country around this time.I think he would have shat if he saw the guy at 2:45 pulling what could have been a booby trap.

[bigc028282]

and McNamara admitted on multiple occasions that the "gulf of Tonkin" was a "false flag" for affect.

[thanhmap100]

Good soldiers,handsome too.

[vukhucgiaomua]

@thanhmap100 VCs surely are always handsome. They are always the best soldiers in VN.

[123Ivance123]

This was quite good. Americans would have napalmed the whole village if a firecracker went off. It spells pwnage

[gerry301]

@123Ivance123 Beg to differ with you. The US would have done the same as the Aussies. If armored vehicles were availabe they would have been used. If napalm was needed it would have been used as well, as long as the villagers were gone and only VC/NVA remained.

[FilmpoetsTV]

Good video, thanks for posting.

[masterfastblast]

Everybody did their job and more. It wasn't like you had a choice. It really was a situation of us or them. We had alot of support from Korea, Australia and New Zealand as well as the South Vietnam providing the biggest share of the manpower and the biggest share of the casualties of the allies. Over a million ARVN lost their lives during the war. This of course is nothing compared to the North Vienamese losses. They lost 5 million during the American version of the war. Ghosts everywhere.

[christof139]

@masterfastblast, According to the government in Hanoi, 1,100,000 PAVN and NLF military personnel were killed in the Vietnam War. Rummel reviewed the many casuality data sets, and this number is in keeping with his mid-level estimate of 1,011,000 N. Vietnamese combat deaths. cont'd.



[christof139]

@masterfastblast, He further calculated a mid-level estimate of 251,000 Viet Cong military deaths. Thus, VC forces accounted for about 22% of the total communist military deaths. What % of the 849,000 N. Viet troops died in S. Vietnam is unknown, but a reasonable assumption is that the vast majority occurred in S. Vietnam. If 80% of the N.Vietnamese casualties died in S. Vietnam, this equals 680,000 men, + 251,000 VC for a total 931,000 combat deaths.

[TOMP66666]

PRO-COMMUNIST SENATOR "HANOI" JOHN KERRY SUPPORTS BRUTAL COMMUNIST VIETNAM BY KILLING VIETNAM HUMAN RIGHTS ACT 2009 (H.R. 1969) IN THE SENATE.

He considers dirty money and economic ties with Vietnam much more important than human rights values. Consequently, Vietnam, has waged a new crackdown on democracy activists such as Father Nguyen van Ly and lawyers Nguyen van Dai and Le thi Cong Nhan, who were given unfair, harsh sentences of several years in prison for their democracy activities.

[TOMP66666]

Many pro-communist peace activists make dead wrong argument that millions of Vietnamese would be saved without the Vietnam war given the fact that millions of Vietnamese lost their lives in "re-education" camps and at sea on their journey for freedom after 1975; not mentioning two milliions of Cambodians executed by Khmer Rouge backed by China. In fact, Vietnam war is an ideological war between capitalism and communism like the current Afghanistan war is a war between democracy and terrorism.

[curioz29]

i have approx 50 slides which may have some relevance to this battle, my father was in 1st armoured (ithink) .i live in perth and will gladly correspond and show these slides once printed

[scalemetal]

I was just surprised to see my dad in this footage! I heard of this battle but never really knew what went on, As he never really talked about it, well... I never really asked?

Thanks for posting this footage

[Eshayzbra96]

@scalemetal where's your dad in the footage?

[usavn999]

Autralian soilder was the best fighter in vietnam war.

[charkee1]

@usavn999 My father was a US marine in WWII, He comments on the fierce reputation of the Ausies and how the Japanese feared them the most.

[gerry301]

@usavn999 Debatable. There were many excellant units, large and small, from several countries. There is no way one can measure which ones were the very best.

[baberaider18]

@usavn999 that is quite true. my dad was in the arvn and the astralians fought like hell

[Saigon1001]

HCM = Hồ Chó Má

[jakewaynedegoumois]

we all did our job Yanks Koreans Kiwis and of course Aussies we are all mates it dosnt matter we all got F#CKed On

[MasterAceman123456]

thanks diggers for the hand! American here.

[rag5206]

@MasterAceman123456 Thanks mate my brother was there and said the Americans were really generous especially with their rations, he said your medivac helicopter pilots were great.

[Downwithcommunisim]

we just cant say it was all american it was Aussie and south Korean too

[Mo0nBugGy1]

This aint korea

[wattlebough]

He would mean that South Korean troops were in Vietnam as well. You probably know that Australia had 50,000 troops in VN b/n 1965-1972 which for the most part controlled one province- Phuoc Tuy. At it's peak Oz had about 8,500 troops on the ground in 1968.

South Korea had over 300,000 troops in VN which controlled 3 provinces, their peak being 50,000 troops on the ground around the late 60s. Apparently they did very well also. They hated communism like no-one else. Regards matey. Jonno.

[gell7]

yu dam aussie are some hella boke, he, eh ,

i be glad to ahve you on my side

[deliverence42]

Thanks guys

[revokes]

go hard digga. stay strong...

[tankie6344]

Inf/tank cooperation at its best,truly shows the capabilities of the old Centurion tanks.They were old tanks but they truly proved their abilities,ably manned by the soldiers of The Royal Australian Armoured Corps.

[wattlebough]

Excellent short doco. Very educational.

[mirikam8]

yes, concise... short and to the point.

Great video. 5 Stars!

[acoyrazorback]

Great stuff I know a bloke who was involved in this battle and my brother was bestman for another bloke the intias of these blokes are LM and MVW. very good inf tank co operation.

[wizart49]

great video.thanks for sharring