• during the Korean War the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (pictured) received a Presidential Unit Citation from Dwight D. Eisenhower for their heroism in the Battle of Kapyong?

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• Australian Army engineers uncovered and destroyed more than 17 kilometres (11 mi) of Viet Cong tunnels in the Ho Bo Woods as part of Operation Crimp during the Vietnam War?
• Australian General George Vasey regretted to have sent a small unit too far without adequate support for the Battle of Kaiapit during World War II and considered himself lucky to have won?
• although heavily outnumbered, two UN battalions—one Australian and one Canadian—halted an entire Chinese division at the Battle of Kapyong (22–25 April 1951) during the Korean War?
• the Australian Army adopted the Pentropic organisation in 1960, but returned to its previous unit structures in 1965 as the new organisation was found to be unsuited to Australia's strategic environment?
• the Australian Army's 1965–6 secret incursions into Indonesia during Australia's involvement in the Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation were not officially acknowledged until 1996?
• the Australian Army's first regular infantry unit, the Darwin Mobile Force, was raised as a unit of the Royal Australian Artillery?
• the British Army changed its plans for operations in Greece during World War II on medical advice from Australian Brigadier Sir Neil Fairley (pictured)?
• the Royal Australian Navy's Kanimbla class ships can carry two Australian Army LCM2000 Landing Craft Mechanised on their bow?
• the Crusader was the largest ship commissioned into service with the Australian Army during World War II?
• the Battle of Maryang San is regarded as one of the Australian Army's greatest victories of the Korean War?