From approximately 1962-1972 over 50,000 Australian Servicemen fought in Vietnam, of which over 19,000 were drafted men. Over 63,000 Australian men were conscripted (drafted) during the war. Nearly 520 Australians were killed in Vietnam, of which over 200 were conscripts. 2,400 were injured.
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Approximately 50,000 Australians served in Vietnam during the course of the war. About 19,000 of them were draftees. However, these are totals: actually in country at one time was generally around 6,000 men for a year. Keeping in mind, just as in America, the balance of the men (volunteers, roughly 31,000 men) were "draft-induced" volunteers; meaning they volunteered because they felt they were going to be drafted anyway.
He was probably too young to have fought in the war.
It is estimated that approximately 50,000 Americans went to Canada in order to avoid the draft. The Vietnam War lasted from 1959 to 1975.
No military draft (we now have an all volunteer military) and the adult age for US Citizens is 18...instead of age 21. Over 20,000 young men that died in Vietnam were not legal adults.
The main goal of student protests in the US was to end the Vietnam war and the involuntary drafting of young men into the army. There were also protests against companies that made weaponry.
In 1994/1995 US-Vietnamese relations were established. Vietnam is a tourist area today. The young Vietnamese citizens, under 30 years old, do NOT remember the Vietnam War.