George Nye was a sparkplug of Operation Welcome Home, which brought veterans groups, brass bands, and Bangor townsfolk to the airport by the hundreds to hug and shake hands with the Desert Storm veterans. I pulled the muscles in that leg so badly yanking it free that I couldnt walk for three months, he said. His personalized license plate proclaims: LZ X-Ray. FORREST, George, fifty-four, who commanded Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Cav in the Ia Drang, retired a lieutenant colonel in 1980 after twenty-one years service. We were taking an administrative break, guys were taking off their packs and lighting cigarettes and the enemy was less than 100 yards on our right flank and deploying and we couldn't see 'em or hear 'em," he said. He told Moore to execute an airmobile assault into the Ia Drang valley north of the Chu Pong peak early the next morning and to conduct search and destroy operations through 15 November. Today he is an orchestra leader and serves in the state militia. For Lawrence, telling the story of LZ Albany is not only a way to keep the memory of those who died alive, but also a way to educate others. By the end of the first day, the 1st BN, 7th Cavalry was reduced to approximately 340 men. On November 27, 1965, Diduryk wrote a detailed account of Bravo Companys actions at X-Ray for the ROTC students at his alma mater, St. Peters College in Jersey City, New Jersey. The U.S. unit was moving through the jungle in a long column when the 8th battalion of the North Vietnamese 66th Regiment sprang in to a massive ambush. About 40 minutes later, North Vietnamese launched their attack, hiding in the tall elephant grass and in stands of trees. The largely [North Vietnamese Army] units we ran into, they were interested in staying and fighting.. Carrara says, I dont dwell on Vietnam, but now and then I hear something or smell something and flash back to those days. However, theres one part of We Were Soldiers thats different from what really happened: the ending. USA, West Point, As the fighting around Landing Zone X-Ray subsided, McDades 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry, was ordered to move cross-country to Landing Zone Albany, where it was to be picked up by helicopter and moved to a new location. He retired in August 1977, with thirty-two years service. He died . DIDURYK, Myron F., commander of Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cav in LZ X-Ray and LZ Albany, completed his tour in Vietnam with Bravo Company in 1966, and later returned to Vietnam and the 1st Air Cavalry Division as a major. LOSE, Charles R., the medic of the Lost Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, has dropped out of sight. RESCORLA, Cyril R. (Rick), fifty-three, platoon leader, Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry in the Ia Drang, completed a full tour with Bravo Company in Vietnam and did another year teaching at Officer Candidate School in the States. By Staff. The Battle of the la Drang Valley would come to be remembered as one of the most iconic battles of the Vietnam War, and later would set the scene for the film We Were Soldiers based on the novel We Were Soldiers OnceAnd Young. Purp is married, the father of three daughters, and cuts hair at Gibbs Barber Shop, where he has worked for the last nineteen years. Jim also talks about the failure of leadership. He and his wife, Kornelia, live in Columbus, Georgia, where for several years Scott taught military subjects to Junior ROTC in the high schools. He told me his wife's name was [Sylvia]. He and his wife, Martha, have four children. The Ia Drang Valley is the place the U.S. really went to warfare. In a 1967 article for the Saturday Evening Post, former ABC reporter Jack Smith, who was a private first class in Charlie Company during the battle, wrote about Cornett's last moments. Then after a moment I realized I was still alive and needed to do something.". Terms of Use | He still grows soybeans and corn on the farm in his spare time. His primary job is helping communities located near Army chemical-weapons depots write their emergency-response plans. The XO was going fast. DUNCAN, Ken, fifty-three, executive officer of Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Cav, left the Army in August 1966, and returned to his hometown of Thomaston, Georgia, where he works with a textile-manufacturing company. In 1946, Ho Chi Minh had warned the French, who were trying to restore control over their former protectorate, that you can kill 10 of my men for every one I kill of yours, yet even at those odds, you will lose and I will win.. Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person. But Charlie was back in the air, flying F-4 Phantoms, less than a year later. Lt. Col. Harold G. Moore, a no-nonsense West Pointer, was the commander of the . The plane hit several tombstones and flipped over. A high school dropout, he went back to college, earned a B.A., and was working on an M.A. The fighting continued all day and into the night. Crandall won the first Helicopter Heroism Award of the Aviation/Space Writers Association, for two daring nighttime landings under fire to rescue twelve badly wounded troopers from Captain Tony Nadals Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Cav in Operation Masher-White Wing in January 1966. The first major American direct fire conflict took place in November of 1965 in the Ia Drang Valley. It was fifty-five years ago on November 14, 1965, the First Cavalry Division commanded by Lt. Col. Hal Moore landed in the Ia (pronounced Eye) Drang Valley, South Vietnam. Word reached the battalion traveling to Columbus, who sent Bravo Company back to Albany to serve as reinforcements. Unknown to them at the time, they were surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese troops. For the last twenty-one years he has been in the tire business. In January 1991, General H. Norman Schwarzkopf summoned the reporter to his headquarters in Saudi Arabia and said: Im sending you to the commander out here who is most like General Hal Moore, and the division which has the most challenging and dangerous mission in my battle plan. Galloway rode with then-Major General Barry McCaffrey and the 24th Infantry Division (Mechanized) on a hair-raising tank charge through the western Iraq desert to the Euphrates River valley. from around the world. He returned for a second Vietnam tour as an adviser in IV Corps in August 1968; in the 1970s he earned bachelors and masters degrees. Poley, a bachelor, lives alone on his farm outside Ackley, Iowa, and in a 1990 letter explained himself far better than we could: Some might ask why havent I forgotten about Vietnam after all these years. Baker, who was less than a foot away from me, was screaming that I was in charge and that I had to do something," he said. The single, bloodiest day in the Vietnam War. Lawrence, even in his paralyzed state, was able to give some direction to his company. He and his wife, Kathie, live on a seventy-acre ranch near Aspen, Colorado, where he owns and operates an outfitting company for fishing and boating trips. The film follows the experiences of both Moore, portrayed by Mel Gibson, and his wife, Julia, played by Madeleine Stowe. Westmorelands recommendation for more troops carried the day even as Johnson and his advisers privately questioned prospects for success. He and his wife and young son live in Lawndale, California. The remainder of the 2nd was left waiting in a communication blackout. Combat operations at Ia Drang Valley, Vietnam, November 1965. KELLING, George, fifty-four, who ran Charlie Med, the rear-area casualty receiving station during LZ X-Ray and LZ Albany, retired a lieutenant colonel in 1978. Photo Credit: Wikipedia; Henry Toro Herrick was red-haired, five foot ten, twenty-four years old, and the son of an astronomy professor at UCLA. HOWARD, John, fifty-four, medical-services officer, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cav in the Ia Drang, retired a lieutenant colonel in 1983, after twenty-five years service. He was forty-five. Dillon is a scratch golfer who does his best to get in eighteen holes every day, even if it means a drive downslope to find a course that isnt closed on account of snow in the Colorado winter. A month before the Ia Drang operation, North Vietnamese regulars attacked a U.S. Special Forces base at Plei Me, hoping to lure the ineffectual South Vietnamese army out of its base at the provincial capital, Pleiku, and destroy it. He retired a lieutenant colonel in 1977 and returned to Georgia, where he is an executive for a trucking firm. They had this Learning to be a Teacher program; I tried it and loved it. "I can't even begin to explain it," he said. The instructor of that class, Colonel John F. Jeszensky (ret. A total of 305 soldiers died. It featured a question-and-answer session with some of the battle's key players, including retired Lt. Gen. Hal Moore. JAKES, Jimmie, Sr., forty-nine, a fire-team leader of Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Cav, was wounded in LZ X-Ray, but recovered and returned to complete his tour. On February 26, 2007, President George W. Bush presented Crandall with the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Ia Drang Valley. FREEMAN, Ed (Too Tall to Fly), sixty-five, Bruce Crandalls wingman, retired a major in 1967 after twenty-one years Army service. STINNETT, Robert L., fifty-eight, Bravo Company, 229th Assault Helicopter Battalion in LZ X-Ray and LZ Albany, returned to Vietnam for a second combat tour. Together, they flew in supplies, water, and ammunition needed for the troops. A U.S. platoon was lured into a trap and surrounded, holding off repeated North Vietnamese attacks despite the death of the platoon leader and several noncommissioned officers. He now lives in Dublin, New Hampshire, and works for a firm that sells office supplies. His lieutenants bars were pinned on by General James Van Fleet and, at Freemans request, his first assignment was as commander of Bravo Company. He had . Now I felt terribly alone. He retired in August 1990, and now lives in Peekskill, New York. KENNEDY, Glenn F., first sergeant, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, was killed in action on May 6, 1966, during Operation Davy Crockett in the Bong Son plain. The secondary plot follows Julia, who volunteers to deliver telegrams informing families of their loved ones deaths in Vietnam. We lived in tents. Early Ia Drang Valley 1965 KIA group - 2/8 Calavary - LZ Cavalair Early Ia Drang Valley 1965 KIA group - 2/8 Calavary - LZ Cavalair. They were platoon leaders together in the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division. George found solace in hiking the Maine woods, shooting nothing more deadly than a 35mm camera. MILLS, Jon, fifty-four, Bruce Crandalls copilot in the Ia Drang, retired a lieutenant colonel in 1980. He is president of his own management-consulting firm and lives in Oklahoma City. Outnumbered when they arrive, the men are forced to fight for their lives while eliminating the 4,000-strong North Vietnamese force. The bullet was still in there. He is brutally honest, even with his actions as a leader. He assumed that like the French, the Americans would tire of seeing their young men coming home in body bags. It was the longest day I ever experienced in any aircraft, Crandall recalled. He is married and the father of two daughters. Since I cant have that, I would like a job working as closely with the Army as possible. He is married and the father of four children. When the last of his old friends in the 1st Cavalry and the U.S. Marines rotated home, Galloway also left, vowing never to return. Shocked and wounded U.S. troops gather at a jungle clearing of South Vietnam's Ia Drang Valley in mid-November 1965, as they wait for an ambulance helicopter. I felt a flash of panic. GALLOWAY, Joe, fifty, war correspondent attached to the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry at X-Ray, served sixteen months in Vietnam on his first tour for United Press International, 1965-1966. TOWLES, Robert, forty-seven, rifleman, Delta Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry, spent five months in Valley Forge General Hospital in Pennsylvania, recovering from twenty-eight shrapnel wounds he received at LZ Albany. If you yield to it, it will absolutely paralyze you. Fesmire is a colonel assigned as the Army attache to the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He completed 22 flights: Rescuing Wounded in Ia Drang Valley from 2015: https://vvmf.wordpress.com/2015/11/07/he-spent-14-hours-in-the-air-rescuing-wounded-in-the-ia-drang-valley/, Stars and Stripes Article: https://www.stripes.com/news/special-reports/vietnam-stories/1965/ia-drang-valley-where-the-us-truly-went-to-war-1.376662, Larry Gwin | VVMF: https://youtu.be/_PDBgEu4cx4, Jon Wallenius | VVMF: https://youtu.be/Qb9a1L4rc2g, Bruce Crandall | VVMF: https://youtu.be/SSNTph4QQ2g, Joe Galloway | VVMF: https://youtu.be/N6XXcDATAgE, Faces Never Forgotten with Joe Galloway: https://www.facebook.com/VietnamVeteransMemorialFund/videos/2239219906358006/, National Geographic Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLyBazkpUFQ, 1965 CBS Special News Report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx1rzDNcFmE, AARP Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKtWX9TDFYc, Military.com In Depth Look: https://www.military.com/video/operations-and-strategy/vietnam-war/the-battle-of-la-drang/2071462322001, Medal of Honor Recipient Bruce Crandall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIAEcZ29aG4, Medal of Honor Recipient Ed Freeman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdDYNI7V0co, Medal of Honor Recipient Walter Marm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7-U0FBiYUU, Docs Teach (National Archives): https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/battle-la-drang-valley, PBS Clip (Plei Me and la Drang): https://whut.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/c27a31b7-14fc-4c5f-804e-168fbb24f5ed/plei-mei-and-the-ia-drang-valley-clip-the-vietnam-war/, Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund | 3033 Wilson Blvd, Suite 300 | Arlington VA 22201 | 202.393.0090 ADAMS, Russell, fifty-one, machine gunner, Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Cav in the Ia Drang, helps run the family dairy farm on five hundred acres outside Shoemakersville, Pennsylvania. His dissertation is on the LZ Albany battle. With only 700 effective soldiers left of the original 2,200, the 33d Regiment needed help. Since then he has taught industrial arts, electronics, and mathematics, has flown for the U.S. Forest Service, and for a time was a crop duster pilot. He teaches physical and earth sciences at Venice High School, Los Angeles, California. ROLAND, William, forty-nine, rifle-squad leader, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry at X-Ray, returned to Vietnam for a second combat tour. I think of all those guys killed in action, wounded in action, and their friends, their relatives and all those altered lives. . Moderate. Jemison works part-time as a security guard in Columbus, Georgia, and he says: Each night I go back to Vietnam to fight that same battle, over and over.. Too Tall Ed retired from that job on January 3, 1991. I ripped off his shirt and there it was: a groove to the right of his spine. That same month, the United States began bombing North Vietnam in Operation Rolling Thunder. He lives in Columbus, Georgia, and is a serious collector of firearms and active in a local shooting club. (AP Photo) A wounded American soldier is aided to a helicopter for evacuation from Ia Drang Valley area, near Plei Me, Vietnam, November 18, 1965. The majority of the battle was fought in the valley of Ia Drang, Vietnam by 3rd Battalion, 7th Calvary and was the first major test of air . Im not supposed to chop wood or do anything that might cause a lick on that side of my head, but it healed up pretty well so I dont worry much about it, he says. MORENO, Frank, copilot in Ed Too Tall Freemans Huey in X-Ray, retired a chief warrant officer-4 after more than twenty years service. "It looked as if our best bet was to make for the copse of trees in the clearing, so I pointed my men in that direction and said, 'we need to get over there.'". Your donation to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund will help expand our mission to honor, educate and heal. The other 58,000 names on that wall are men and women who also had a spouse, or children, they had mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters. KINNARD, Harry W. O., seventy-seven, former commanding general of the 1st Cavalry Division, retired from the Army as a lieutenant general in 1969. Easy. Still on active duty, he is a major general, and is deputy to the Army inspector-general. In the first major engagement of the war between regular U.S. and North Vietnamese forces, elements of the 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) fight a pitched battle with Communist main . Rescorla kept the battered French Army bugle he captured on the field at Albany; in 1991 he turned it over to the Ia Drang Alumni for use in memorial ceremonies. Alpha Company arrived in Vietnam with 146 officers and men. Fighting was so intense that a battalion commander, Lt. Col. Hal Moore, reported finding a dead American with his hands at the throat of a dead North Vietnamese soldier. BARTHOLOMEW, Roger J. They have three children, daughters Abigail and Alison and a son, Thomas Alexander. He is a civilian specialist on NATO affairs for the Defense Department; he and his wife, Sally, live in Bethesda, Maryland. At the end of a year only fifteen of the original contingent were still there, Gwin included. CASH, John, fifty-six, assistant operations officer in 3rd Brigade Headquarters, later commanded a rifle company in the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry for more than six months in 1966. The Troopers of 2/7 Cav relieved their sister unit, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, on Nov. 16, following 1/7 Cav's three day battle with the People's Army of Vietnam near the base of the Chu Pong Massif. SETELIN, John, forty-eight, squad leader, Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry, left Vietnam with three Purple Hearts and left the Army a sergeant. Lacking confidence in the South Vietnamese, Gen. William C. Westmoreland ordered the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division, which had been in country about a month, to pursue the enemy, using newly minted airmobile tactics. The living, wounded and dead of the first and second battalions of the US 7th Cavalry were flown back to their bases, given fresh food and clothes, and reformed for another day of fighting. Lt. Don Cornett along with 154 Troopers from 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment were killed in the Ia Drang Valley, Nov. 17, 1965, at a small clearing known as Landing Zone Albany. Lt. Col. Hal Moore, commander of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, on the radio during the fight for LZ X-Ray in the Ia Drang Valley of Vietnam. (Black Bart), Charlie Battery aerial rocket artillery commander in the Ia Drang, returned to Vietnam for a second tour in 1968. LADNER, Theron, fifty, machine gunner with Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry in X-Ray, lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he owns a nightclub and a stable of Thoroughbred racehorses. He returned to active duty in July 1966, and served a second tour in Vietnam as an adviser in Long Binh district. Adams and his wife have a three-year-old daughter. EIN: 52-1149668, Copyright 2023 The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, Javascript must be enabled for the correct page display. This article was originally published Nov. 11, 2015, as part of the Vietnam at 50 project. He lives in Vicksburg, Mississippi. The men, women, and children of this story are Americas neighbors, living quiet lives in every corner of the nation they served. He and his wife live in Phoenix, Arizona. He was chief of security at a hospital in Columbus, Georgia, until his death on April 18, 1992. This praise is largely due to the heavy emphasis director Randall Wallace put on ensuring what he created was as accurate to the real events of the Battle of Ia Drang as possible. PAYNE, D. P. (Pat), fifty, recon-platoon leader, Delta Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry in the Ia Drang, served two tours in Vietnam and left the Army as a captain in June 1969. He and his wife have two college-age children. He and his wife, Julie, divide their time between homes in Auburn, Alabama, and Crested Butte, Colorado. Battalion Commander Lieutenant Colonel Hal Moore and his men continued on, receiving support from artillery units and air strikes, helping the American troops hold themselves against the enemy. ), provided the authors with a copy of Diduryks journal and maps for this book. Of the 500 men, 150 were killed and only 84 were able to return to immediate duty. It was a small football size clearing for the first helicopters to be used in combat. Absent was an effective plan for winning over the civilian population caught in the crossfire, said James Willbanks, a Vietnam veteran who is the director of the Department of Military History at U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. His injured right hip deteriorated, and on the Thursday before Thanksgiving, 1986, he found himself back on an operating tablethe same place he had been on the Thursday before Thanksgiving, 1965. He was 92 years old. He has written a book about his experiences and has spoken more than 20 times to veterans organizations, junior high and high school students, and civic groups. The machine gunner was mowing them down. Becoming a Find a Grave member is fast, easy and FREE. Resend Activation Email, Please check the I'm not a robot checkbox, If you want to be a Photo Volunteer you must enter a ZIP Code or select your location on the map. 1965, just after the start of the U.S. campaign that led to the Ia Drang Valley. By the end, there were no officers left and only 49 men that were not wounded. Roger Gregory is a Vietnam veteran, serving in the 1st Infantry Division and is a business owner in Priest River. As a student, she worked in a variety of research positions, including as an archivist. He went home to Murphysboro, Illinois. (Photo Credit: US Army / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain) The real life Battle of Ia Drang took place between November 14-19, 1965. MCDONALD, George J., fifty-two, mortarman, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, left the Army in 1966 and went home to Pass Christian, Mississippi, where he is a commercial fisherman. Many did a second tour and others left the service and returned home to their families. He retired a command sergeant major and lives in Columbus, Georgia. For him, war is something that will always be a necessity as long as there is evil in the world, but it is something that is not to be glorified or desired. MOORE, H. G. (Hal), now seventy, commanded the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry in the Ia Drang and served six more months in Vietnam, commanding the 3rd Brigade. They saved some 70 soldiers. He shares this message with the groups he speaks to, but being able to impart some wisdom and knowledge from his experiences to Soldiers is special to him, because for him it is an opportunity to maybe bring a Soldier home safely. He is senior Army adviser to the 79th Army Reserve Command in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. Cash served a second tour in Vietnam as an adviser to the Royal Thai Army forces. He was paralyzed. The day before he died, George picked up a Christmas tree, which he planned to decorate with yellow ribbons and small American flags for the airport terminal; soldiers from the Gulf were still arriving and he didnt want them to think they had been forgotten. Charlies foot was pinned in the wrecked cockpit when the white phosphorus target-marking rockets under the wings cooked off. They are all Don Cornett to him, his best friend. He and his wife live in St. Charles, a suburb of Chicago. Feb 25, 2017. Shortly thereafter, US units began . Hal Moore and the 1st Battalion, 7th . This browser does not support getting your location. I believe it is so I can share our story.". About 80 U.S. soldiers were killed, 124 wounded, in the first two days of the fight. Although survivors had been trickling in during the morning they thought the 2/7th had been annihilated in the fighting at Albany. He left the Army in October 1966, and went home to his native Ohio, where he works as a carpenter. "The next morning we were told the B-52s out of Guam were going to bomb the mountains and that we were to move to LZ Albany," Jim said. 'The torture stopped': 1969 brought temporary changes to infamous Hanoi Hilton, Patriotism or protest? "Why did I deserve to live? The survivors of the Ia Drang on November 14, 1965 to Nov 1965 on Nov. 14 with men. Gen. Westmoreland, commander of the U.S. After several routine lifts into the area,the men on the ground came under attack from the North Vietnamese Army. The following day, both battalions were informed of an incoming bomber run on LZ X-Ray, meaning they needed to go elsewhere. Karen works part-time as a freelance designer and helps with her husbands construction and contracting business. He and his wife, Deurice, live in Columbus, Georgia, where he is president of the 1st Cavalry Division Association local chapter and an occasional quail hunter. Temperatures reached 100 degrees, and by the afternoon there was a firestorm battle for survival. Douglas County, Learn more about featured topics of the Vietnam War and Vietnam Era. However, Americans killed an estimated 1,800 North Vietnamese, through rifles, artillery, helicopters, and jets. He was judged seventy percent disabled due to wounds suffered in LZ X-Ray. HERREN, John, fifty-eight, commander of Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Cav, served a second tour in Vietnam as a staff officer at MACV/Saigon, was a battalion commander in Germany, and served in the office of the secretary of defense until his retirement in 1985 as a colonel. He checked in with the nearest Veterans Administration hospital; they sent him home, telling him they would call him back for an operation to place a plate over the hole. USA, Scranton, These additional troops pushed back the enemy, allowing the others to evacuate the wounded. LZ Albany is essentially two clearings with a large copse of trees in the middle. He did not know at the time that his friend, Don Cornett, had died. His friends completed the tree for him and dedicated it to Sergeant China Joe Nye. It wasnt until Albany was back in American hands that the engagement officially drew to a close. This battle took place from 11-14-1965, thru 11-18-1965. 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