Yet this photo of two such captured NVA Soldiers was taken on November 15, 1965...
Posted on 11/12/2004 9:16:06 PM PST by Calpernia
Yet this photo of two such captured NVA Soldiers was taken on November 15, 1965...
Wow! What a great website! Can you tell us more about these pictures? Share some more stories? :)
I still rmeber waking up on my birthday in 1965 and going to breakfast in the frat-house, picking up a copy of the LA Times and reading about the battle.
A few years later, I had the honor of fighting in Garry Owen.
3rd Bde, HHC, 1stCavDiv.
BTTT
Thank you for serving!
Can you share any stories?
I ahven't any stories to tell regarding X-ray/Albany, except to say by the time I came through Benning OCS these battles were enshrined in 1st Cav, and Army, history.
I read somewhere else that when LBJ and Strange McNamara heard about the combiuned casualties of X-ray/Albany, they lost the starch from their fatigues.
Airmobility was conceptualized with the Howze Board, put into practice with the early 1st Cav's exploits, and by the timme I got there, it was a well-oiled machine.
We owed much to the pioneers.
x1stcav, Thank you for contributing! But please, I don't understand what you just said. See, I'm a victim of NEA. I honestly did not know what Vietnam was until I JUST STARTED reading about it.
Vietnam is no longer mentioned in schools. This started years ago. I graduated from public school in 1986. I've been through college with a double major.
You want to really laugh? I never knew who the first world war was fought against until my husband told me just withing the past 2 years.
So please, what you said really sounds interesting. Can you expand?
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Thank you for your interest, Freeper Calpernia.
Since I was Lt. Col. HAL G. MOORE's 1st Radioman / Driver / Orderly in Vietnam he gave closer access to me and my cameras than just about anybody else in the Battalion after he made me his 7th Cavalry S-1 Personnel Clerk just before the IA DRANG Campaign.
I carried 2 half frame slide cameras, one hanging down from each shoulder strap, and started taking photos after egressing from our Huey and Chinook Helicopters.
My personal Vietnam Story is shared in my Thread titled:
'WE WERE SOLDIERS ONCE..& YOUNG'..4 FREEDOM
http://www.Freerepublic.com/forum/a39626542519c.htm
My resulting Perspectives are shared in our:
"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Forum
http://www.TheAlamoFILM.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=8
My being ..'A Witness to the Heroism of Many'.. Book Contribution can be found in:
'MODERN DAY HEROES: In Defense of America'
http://www.ModernDayHeroes.com/aloha
Hit: 'Rescource Center'
Hit: 'Aloha Ronnie'
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Evening to you!
This is interesting!
'WE WERE SOLDIERS ONCE...& YOUNG'...4 FEEEDOM
...Excerpt from the PROLOGUE to this 1992 New York Times Bestseller & 1993 Commandant of the Marine Corps - Book of the Year- ........"The Class of 1965 came out of the old America, a nation that disappeared forever in the smoke that billowed off the Jungle Battlegrounds where we faught and bled. The country that sent us off to war was not there to welcome us home. -IT NO LONGER EXISTED-. We answered the call of one President who is now dead (LBJ); we followed the orders of one who would be hounded from office (Nixon), and haunted, by the war he mismanaged so badly. Many of our countrymen came to hate the war we faught. Those who hated it the most - the professionally sensitive - were not, in the end, sensitive enough to differentiate between the war and the soldiers who had been ordered to fight it. They hated us as well, and -WE WENT TO GROUND- in the crossfire as we had learned in the jungles. ...In Time our battles were forgotten, our sacrifices were discounted, and both our sanity and our suitablity for life in polite Amercan Society were publically questioned. Our young - Old Faces, chiseled and gaunt from the fever and the heat and the sleepless nights, now stare back at us, lost and damned strangers, frozen in yellowing snapshots packed away in cardboard boxes with our medals and ribbons. ...We built our lives, found jobs or professions, married, raised families, and -WAITED PATIENTLY FOR AMERICA TO COME TO ITS SENSES-. As the years past we searched each other out and found that the half-remembered pride of our service was shared by those who had shared everything else with us. With them, and only with them, could we talk about what had really happened over there --- what we had seen, what we had done, what we had survived. ...We knew what Vietnam had been like, and how we looked and acted and talked and smelled. No one in America did. Hollywood got it wrong every damned time, whetting twisted political knives on the bones of our dead brothers. ...So once, just this once: This is how it all began, what it was really like, what it meant to us, and what we meant to each other. It was no movie. When it was over the dead did not get up and dust themselves off and walk away. The wounded did not wash away the red and go on with life, unhurt. Those who were, miraculously, unscratched were by no means untouched. Not one of us left Vietnam the same young man he was when he arrived."
.."This story, then, is our testament, and our tribute to 234 young Americans who died beside us during four days in Landing Zone X-Ray and Landing Zone Albany in the Valley of Death, 1965. That is more Americans than were killed in any regiment, North or South, at the Battle of GETTYSBURG ...for we were soldiers once...and young." ...Signed:..ALOHA RONNIE, VET-HHC, 1/7th Cavalry-Battle of IA DRANG-1965 www.lzxray.com
We Were Soldiers, TNT, Friday 9pm EST, Saturday 8pm EST, Sunday 8pm EST
In a place soon to be known as The Valley of Death, in a small clearing called landing zone X-Ray, Lt. Colonel Hal Moore (Mel Gibson) and 400 young fathers, husbands, brothers, and sons, all troopers from an elite American combat division, were surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers. The ensuing battle was one of the most savage in U.S. history. We Were Soldiers Once...And Young is a tribute to the nobility of those men under fire, their common acts of uncommon valor, and their loyalty to and love for one another.
Wow! Aloha, are you trying to tell me you influenced a movie?
You information was used? Please, no links without stories! Tell us more!
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