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To: Joe 6-pack
Death in the Ia Drang was written by Jack P. Smith (Son of CBS newsman Howard K. Smith) and is the first hand account of the Vietnam War battle portrayed in the movie and book “We Were Once Soldiers”. This account happens after those depicted in the movie were relieved. The article starts about a third of the way down the page

http://www.mishalov.com/death_ia_drang_valley.html

12 posted on 11/08/2011 10:51:27 AM PST by Wooly
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To: Wooly

Will read in more detail later. I’m thinking that LZ Albany was in the book “We Were Soldiers”. Or maybe I read about it elsewhere. I recall the one story of a guy that was wounded and got seperated and was off in the brush somewhere. He could hear the NVA searching out for our survivors and bayonetting them as they cried for mercy.

He spent many days wounded and crawling and somehow made it to a location where he could be rescued.

Back in Jr. High we had a long-term substitute teacher for several months. He was some grunt but had taken lots of photos. I think it was every Friday he would do a slide show from his photos and tell stories. Nothing graphic - just stuff. “Right after this photo was taken we encountered the enemy. Now here is a photo of the bar we would go to...”


25 posted on 11/08/2011 1:01:09 PM PST by 21twelve ("We can go from boom to bust, from dreams to a bowl of dust....and another lost generation.")
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