Long Tan

On this day in 1966, the 108 young men of D Company of 2RAR based at Nui Dat met a force made up of the Viet Cong 275 Regiment and North Vietnam D445 battalion in the Long Tan rubber plantation. DCoy held back the 2500 strong army for 3 hours before artillery fire and the arrive of 1st APC Squad. forced the VC and Regulars to withdraw. 18 Australians were killed, along with at least 245 Vietnamese.

D.Coy received a Presidential Citation and the North Vietnamese forces did not directly engage Australian forces again. None of the 18 dead Australians were older than 22 years old.

Clippy Tells All

Usually with Microsoft Word, what you see is what you get. If you make a change to a document, then that is what you see when it gets printed out. But in fact, in many cases it is what you cannot see at first glance that proves more interesting.

Why the British Government is dropping Word in favour of Acrobat.