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The platoon's troopers were told to drop their packs and move forward for the assault. The resulting exchange was particularly costly for the platoon — its lead forces were quickly cut down. 3rd Platoon was forced to pull back, and its leader Lt. Taft was killed. Sgt.
There were actually two battles, the second was one of attrition and had no winner; the movie only has the first where the US troops prevail. Iirc, all the stuff about the wives back home was not in the book. The last few scenes of the movie where Mel and the troops overrun the enemy camp was not based on the true story and pretty ridiculous.
In the Vietnam war film, “We Were Soldiers”, there’s a scene where a ARVN soldier interrogates an NVA soldier. The NVA says that there are 10,000 other NVA hiding in the mountains, but the ARVN soldier mistranslates and reports only 4,000. One of the reasons why the Americans sustained heavy losses.
I found the movie always seemed on the verge of crossing into cliche, 'noble soldiers' and 'derring do', left me a bit cold. Fascinating reading about the history of the battle though. Edit: 'Nam by Mark Baker is another great book, first person perspectives from people involved in the war.
We Were Soldiers (2002) Extended Cut? Question Recently seen lots of deleted scenes from We Were Soldiers appearing in my YouTube recommended, and now I'm trying to figure out where to watch the full extended cut of the movie.
Unique Pro-War and Movies Like We Were Soldiers Inspired by the previous post about an hour or so ago. Most war movies since the real life Tet Offensive (which we won by the way) have been cautionary tales and contained an undercurrent or overtones of anti war and sometimes even anti self defense messaging in the past 44 years.
Movie is called We Were Soldiers he got hit with napalm and it cooked the Flesh on his legs which then got degloved. By the way degloving is a totally real thing and you have to sedate people because when they get burns that bad the cooked skin has to be removed.
We Were Soldiers is a 2002 war film that dramatizes the Battle of Ia Drang on November 14, 1965. The film was directed by Randall Wallace and stars Mel Gibson. It is based on the book We Were Soldiers Once… And Young by Lieutenant General (Ret.) Hal Moore and reporter Joseph L. Galloway, both of whom were at the battle.
In The Exorcist (1973), we hear the first lines of a song called 'Thoity Toid and Toid', with father Dyer at the piano. The song contains the line 'three flights of stairs is a helluva fall'
I was in the far left platoon. About 3/4 of the Vietnam era troops in this scene are actually Soldiers stationed there at Fort Benning in mid 2001 that put themselves on a one-day leave status to legally be extras. We were paid by the production company too.