Major Harry Smith and his dispersed company of 108 young and mostly inexperienced Australian and New Zealand soldiers are fighting for their lives for three and a half hours in the pouring rain, amid the mud and shattered trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tan, against an overwhelming enemy force of 2,500 battle hardened Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers. As their ammunition runs out, casualties mount, and the enemy prepares for a final assault, each man searches for the strength to triumph over an uncertain future with honour, decency, and courage.
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Major Harry Smith and his dispersed company of 108 young and mostly inexperienced Australian and New Zealand soldiers are fighting for their lives for three and a half hours in the pouring rain, amid the mud and shattered trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tan, against an overwhelming enemy force of 2,500 battle hardened Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers. As their ammunition runs out, casualties mount, and the enemy prepares for a final assault, each man searches for the strength to triumph over an uncertain future with honour, decency, and courage.
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