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    Australia Set to Commemorate War’s End

    Mar 01, 2022 4 minutes

    The Australian government has committed $6 million to fund a commemorative program that honors Vietnam veterans on the 50th anniversary marking the end of Australian involvement in Vietnam, according to Andrew Gee, Australia’s minister for veterans’ affairs and defense personnel.

    Commemorations will begin in January 2023—50 years after the Jan. 11, 1973, announcement that Australian combat operations in Vietnam had ended, although some soldiers remained behind to guard the embassy in Saigon until the beginning of July. A total of 60,000 Australians served in Vietnam. The country suffered 521 killed and 3,000 wounded.

    The 50-year anniversary of the war’s end is “a very important milestone,” Gee said Jan. 12 on The Ray Hadley Morning Show on Australian radio. Gee, whose uncle served

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