2024 Vietnam Past & Present Tour
Travel with Vietnam Long Tan veteran Dave Sabben and commemorate Vietnam Veterans Day 2024 on the ground where this history took place.
Departs: 15 August 2024, from Ho Chi Minh City
Duration: 13 Days
Price: $4999pp twin share
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This 13-day itinerary takes in all the key Australian battlefield sites, plus some American sites as well as the country’s incredible UNESCO World Heritage sites such as Hue, Hoi-An and Ha Long Bay.
Long Tan is Australia’s most famous battle of the Vietnam war. Fought in a rubber plantation on 18 August 1966, an isolated infantry company of 108 men – cut off and outnumbered by at least ten to one – withstood Viet Cong attacks for three hours. They suffered the heaviest Australian casualties in a single engagement in Vietnam, but prevailed against the odds. Their valiant stand became a defining action of the war. Dave Sabben was at the front of this battle.
Dave Sabben, MG, was conscripted in the first intake in 1965. He commanded 12 Platoon, Delta Company and arrived in South Vietnam in June 1966. Dave served in one of Australia’s most intense battles of the Vietnam War – the Battle of Long Tan. At 21 years old, it was an experience he would never forget. Dave said: “Nothing could prepare you for it, I’d been in the army a year and a month, and to come into what was essentially a pitched conventional battle – no amount of training could prepare you for how to cope with it.”
This tour provides a rare opportunity to walk the battlefield of Long Tan with Dave Sabben.
Read more about Dave Sabben’s experience at Long Tan here: https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/blog/dave-sabben-and-the-battle-of-long-tan
