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The Battle of Ia Drang (Vietnamese: Trận Ia Đrăng, [iə̯ ɗrăŋ]; in English / ˈ iː ə d r æ ŋ /) was the first major battle between the United States Army and the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), as part of the Pleiku campaign conducted early in the Vietnam War, at the eastern foot of the Chu Pong Massif in the central highlands of Vietnam, in 1965.
Joseph Lee Galloway (November 13, 1941 – August 18, 2021) was an American newspaper correspondent and columnist. During the Vietnam War, he often worked alongside the American troops he covered and was awarded a Bronze Star Medal in 1998 for having carried a badly wounded man to safety while he was under very heavy enemy fire in 1965. [2]
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It focuses on the role of the First and Second Battalions of the 7th Cavalry Regiment in the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley, the United States's first large-unit battle of the Vietnam War; previous engagements involved small units and patrols (squad, platoon, and company sized units). It was adapted into the 2002 film We Were Soldiers.
Battle of Ia Drang: South Vietnam, Pleiku Province: He was reported to have been shot several times and killed but his body could not be located [141] Presumptive finding of death [3] November 21: Toms, Dennis L: Seaman Apprentice: US Navy: VA-192, USS Bon Homme Richard: South Vietnam, South China Sea: Lost overboard while arming aircraft [142]
Nov. 29—Whether you were alive to remember seeing the news images of the Bell UH-1 "Huey" helicopters, or have since seen such scenes recreated in movies of the Huey helicopters flying above the ...
Hal Moore continued the battle in a different landing zone, and after nearly a year, he returned home safely to Julia and his family. His superiors congratulate him for killing over 1,800 North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong soldiers. An older, now retired Moore visits the Vietnam War memorial and looks at the names of the soldiers who fell at ...
Monday marks 80 years since the Battle of the Bulge, when the Nazi army made its last offensive push of World War II.. The battle was one of the costliest of the war, with the U.S. Army suffering ...