50 years on from Vietnam : doco on Kiwi involvement
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2015 5:19 pmEveryone's attention is on the 100 year Anzac commemoration at present but turns out there's another military anniversary this year. A Mini doco here from The Nation show about NZs involvement in Vietnam. Not much aviation footage but a few interviews w kiwi vets:
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As well as being 100 years since the Gallipoli landings, 2015 also marks the 50th anniversary of New Zealand's entry into the Vietnam War. In May 1965, the Prime Minister, Keith Holyoake, announced we were joining the US-led coalition. Thousands of Kiwis would serve there over the next seven and a half years, and the scars of that ill-fated campaign, like Gallipoli, remain. Reporter Torben Akel sat down with some of the veterans of Vietnam.
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