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Anzacs Betrayed - The Story of the 2nd D&E Platoon (Paperback)
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Anzacs Betrayed - The Story of the 2nd D&E Platoon (Paperback)
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May 1969 the Vietnam War Atrocities, Curruption, Murder. The
Falsification of History. Anzacs Betrayed is a companion piece to
the best-selling memoir, The War Within. Don Tate now provides an
in-depth analysis of one of the most sordid matters in Australian
military history, the deletion of the 2nd D&E Platoon from all
the histories of the Vietnam War and his 38 year battle to have it
reinstated. It is a story of many parts- but at it's heart, it is a
story of betrayal. Not only the betrayal of the thirty-nine
Infantry Privates who formed the ad hoc, 2nd D&E Platoon in
Vietnam during 1969, but a story the gatekeepers of our military
heritage don't want told- the 'red hats' of the military
establishment, and the historians of the Australian War Memorial.
And there is good reason why- because it turns on its head the
romanticised image of Anzac and the noble traditions of the
Australian Defence Force. Don Tate volunteered to go to the Vietnam
War as a naive, but patriotic nineteen year old boy in 1969 and
served as an infantry reinforcement with three units - the 4th
Battalion, the 2nd D&E Platoon, and the 9th Battalion. He was
badly wounded in action on the 19th July 1969 and was hospitalised
for more than two years. Many years later, he learned that not only
hadn't he been recorded with the 9th Battalion, but that all trace
of the 2nd D&E Platoon had been erased from the histories of
the Vietnam War. Worse, that the curruptions of his service records
(and those of every man who fought in the platoon) was the result
of a cover-up of atrocities that reached the highest levels of the
military and the government.
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