Half a century on, 'justice is done' as honours flow for the soldiers of Vietnam's Long Tan battle

By David Wroe and Lindsay Murdoch
Updated August 11 2016 - 2:08pm, first published 9:20am
Jack Kirby (left), and Harry Smith test-fire a Goryunov SG43 7.62 x 54mmR Soviet-made Chinese communist heavy machinegun captured at Long Tan. 
 Photo: Courtesy of the Australian War Memorial
Jack Kirby (left), and Harry Smith test-fire a Goryunov SG43 7.62 x 54mmR Soviet-made Chinese communist heavy machinegun captured at Long Tan. Photo: Courtesy of the Australian War Memorial

"Great big man he was. How he never got hit surprises me to this day."

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