South Vietnamese Armed Forces & Allies

Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War started in July 1962 with the arrival of the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam in South Vietnam. By the time the war ended with the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975, almost 60,000 Australians had served in Vietnam.  Between 1975 and 1995 some 90,000 Vietnamese refugees were processed in Australia. Today Vietnamese-Australians are one of the largest communities in multicultural Australia.