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Mates killed in Vietnam six decades ago to be awarded new medals

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Kevin Wheatley was a warrant officer second class of the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam. He was acting as an adviser to the South Vietnamese forces, which meant he regularly found himself fighting in furious battles against the Viet Cong. On May 28, 1965, he found himself pinned down in a shallow ditch next to a road by a hamlet named Van Van in Quang Tri Province, in what was then South Vietnam. A Vietnamese mother and three young children huddled by the road, too. A girl about three years old broke away from her mother and ran, crying and screaming towards the road. Wheatley, with complete disregard for his own safety and fully exposing himself to the heavy fire from the south, leapt to

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Mates killed in Vietnam six decades ago to be awarded new medals

The late Kevin “Dasher” Wheatley is set to become one of Australia’s most decorated soldiers after a military appeals tribunal recommended new medals for him and the mate who died with him in Vietnam in 1965.

·Sydney, Australia
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Sydney Morning Herald broke the news in Sydney, Australia on Monday, January 29, 2024.
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