In the pouring rain on a rubber plantation in South Vietnam, a company of 108 Australian and New Zealand soldiers, led by Major Harry Smith, defend against an enemy force of 2,500 battle-hardened Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army soldiers.

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In August 1966, a small force of 108 Australian and New Zealand soldiers, many of whom were inexperienced, was vastly outnumbered by over 2500 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers in a Long Tan rubber plantation.