2016 $5 50th Anniversary of The Battle of Long Tan Uncirculated Coin PNCs - 30c Smaller than the Falcon

Smaller than the Falcon

The Royal Australian Mint pays tribute to those Australians who made military history behind and beyond the battlefield with the release of this Australia Remembers 20c coin

The newly established federal Repatriation Department provided war pensions

officially opened the RMC

including those of Kylie Minogue Jason Donovan Guy Pearce

2016 $5 50th Anniversary of The Battle of Long Tan Uncirculated Coin PNCs - 30c Smaller than the FalconMuch of Australias war in Vietnam was spent patrolling Phuoc Tuy province. On 18 August 1966, months after the formation of the 1st Australian Task Force Base at Nui Dat, 108 Australian and New Zealand troops fought a pitched battle against more than 2000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops in the rubber plantation of Long Tan. 18 Australians died and a further 24 were wounded in what was the largest action fought by Australian forces during the