[JoeFromCA]

I was a UH 1B (helicopter) crew chief with the 1st Air Cavalry at Pleiku (Central Highlands, N. Vietnam), Thanksgiving '65. It was about two weeks after the Battle of Ia Drang, the first major military encounter with the NVA, in which we lost 234 US troops. General Westmoreland came to our camp to congratulate us on our great victory (estimated 14-1 kill ratio). We had to wait for our dinners to suit his schedule, and morale was low. Those were hard times; much better Thanksgiving '01.

[blam]

"I was a UH 1B (helicopter) crew chief with the 1st Air Cavalry at Pleiku (Central Highlands, N. Vietnam), Thanksgiving '65. It was about two weeks after the Battle of Ia Drang, the first major military encounter with the NVA, in which we lost 234 US troops."

Thank you.

[Norb2569]

Thank you for your service to our nation at a very dark time!

Guys like you give us a reason to be thankful!

Norb in Jacksonville