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However, 1st Battalion-7th Cavalry Regiment counterattacked their flanks at 0930 that day, and managed to seize Hill 268, "Trianglation Hill", and killed 400 enemy. The morning of 10 August, a combined tank and infantry attack next reached the crest of the Triangulation Hill without much trouble, and this battle was over by about 16:00.
Moore is remembered as the lieutenant colonel in command of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, at the Battle of Ia Drang in 1965, during the Vietnam War. The battle was detailed in the 1992 bestseller We Were Soldiers Once… and Young , co-authored by Moore and made into the film We Were Soldiers in 2002, which starred Mel Gibson as ...
LZ X-Ray involved the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment and supporting units under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Hal Moore, and took place November 14–16, at LZ X-Ray. Surrounded and under heavy fire from a numerically superior force, the American forces were able to hold back the North Vietnamese forces over three days, largely through ...
6th Cavalry Regiment; 7th Cavalry Regiment. 1st Squadron is the cavalry squadron assigned to the 1st Armored BCT, 1st Cavalry Division, stationed at Fort Cavazos, Texas. 2nd Battalion is a combined arms battalion assigned to the 3rd Armored BCT, 1st Cavalry Division, stationed at Fort Cavazos, Texas.
This part of the battle was fought primarily by the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), led by Lieutenant Colonel Hal Moore, although elements of Alpha and Bravo Companies of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry (2/7), participated. The rest of the 2/7 arrived by the morning of November 16.
During the Korean War, Plumley fought as the member of 187th Airborne Infantry Regiment. He fought in Vietnam with the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment . He participated in the Battle of Ia Drang in Vietnam in 1965, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Hal Moore , who praised Plumley as an outstanding NCO and leader in the 1992 book about ...
304th Armored Cavalry Regiment – Constituted 1948 in the Organized Reserve Corps and partially organized in Massachusetts. Headquarters redesignated and 1st Battalion inactivated 1950, 2nd and 3rd Battalions disbanded 1952. [25] 305th Armored Cavalry Regiment – Constituted 1948 in the Organized Reserve Corps and partially organized 1949 in ...
[1] [2]: 184–5 The 1st Cavalry lost 10 helicopters destroyed and 23 damaged in the first day's assault. [2]: 186 On 20 April the 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry continued to deploy, the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment moved southeast while the 5th Battalion, 7th Cavalry moved to block Route 548 to Laos. The 2nd Battalion 7th Cavalry was landed ...