He retired in August 1990, and now lives in Peekskill, New York. He wanted to ensure the memories of those who died live on, in particular that of his best friend, Lt. Don Cornett. The IDV is the valley through which the river (Ia) Drang flows and is drained by the Ia Drang, Ia Puck and an extensive network of small streams flowing west and southwest across the Cambodian border into the Mekong River. They have a son and two daughters. 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. We Were Soldiers (2002) is considered by many to be one of the best Vietnam War films ever made. The Pleiku Campaign took place from 20 October to 26 . He was evacuated, via Clark Field, to Fitzsimmons Army Hospital in Denver. (U.S. Army). Learn more about featured topics of the Vietnam War and Vietnam Era. His lieutenants bars were pinned on by General James Van Fleet and, at Freemans request, his first assignment was as commander of Bravo Company. Carrara says, I dont dwell on Vietnam, but now and then I hear something or smell something and flash back to those days. KINNARD, Harry W. O., seventy-seven, former commanding general of the 1st Cavalry Division, retired from the Army as a lieutenant general in 1969. Due to a statute of limitations being lifted, Freeman was awarded the Medal of Honor on July 16, 2001. He lives in Golden, Colorado, where he owns a firm that deals worldwide in antiques. The airstrike broke the North Vietnamese siege and enabled reinforcements to reach the LZ. The bullets missed his head by fractions of an inch, but the impact knocked him backward and he couldn't move from the waist down. Moderate. But UPI sent him back to Vietnam in 1971, in 1973, and again in 1975 for the final chapter. It would remain the U.S. militarys single bloodiest day in Vietnam through the entire war. Your new password must contain one or more uppercase and lowercase letters, and one or more numbers or special characters. I felt a flash of panic. SHADDEN, James Haskell, fifty, mortarman, Delta Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry, survived half a dozen operations and one year in Army hospitals recovering from the wounds received at LZ Albany. His hands were burned in the escape from the wreckage, and it was doubted that he would ever fly again. He lives in Washington, D.C. SPIRES, James W., operations officer, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry in the Ia Drang, retired a lieutenant colonel in 1976 and owns and operates his own industrial representational firm. Temperatures reached 100 degrees, and by the afternoon there was a firestorm battle for survival. Alley is general manager of a box factory in Dayton, Tennessee. BEAN, Roger, fifty-two, Huey pilot who was wounded in LZ X-Ray, was wounded again in early 1966 in the Bong Son campaign. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial stands as a symbol of America's honor and recognition of the men and women who served and sacrificed their lives in the Vietnam War. This was the first and last battle between NVA forces and U.S forces of similar size. Some of the men who hadn't slept for close to 48 hours closed their eyes, others smoked or ate. On 27 October Westmoreland committed a brigade of the 1st Air Cavalry to search-and-destroy operations. ROLAND, William, forty-nine, rifle-squad leader, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry at X-Ray, returned to Vietnam for a second combat tour. The conflict is divided into two engagements: the Battle at Landing Zone (LZ) X-Ray and. He and his wife and their four Saint Bernard dogs live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He went home to Anderson County, South Carolina, where he is a deputy sheriff. We have set your language to Although each survivor's story is unique, . Of the 500 men present as part of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 155 lost their lives, and just 84 were immediately able to return to active duty. I guess I was an oddball; everyone else that year was going into teaching to avoid the draft, and then there was me. Jeanette and his wife, Sandra, were married five days before he shipped out for Vietnam. Returning home, he single-handedly raised his two young children while earning two masters degrees. Edwards is the acting borough manager of Dublin, Pennsylvania; he and his wife, Nancy, live in nearby New Hope. All Rights Reserved. He and his wife live in Lake Forest, Illinois. But I remember thinking that I'm just a lieutenant. LOMBARDO, Riccardo, sixty-one, Huey pilot in X-Ray and Albany and Pop Jekels good buddy, was retired on one hundred percent disability after a serious back injury in 1967, when he was thirty-six. Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) Harold Moore led the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, against numerically superior elements of the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) led by General Chu Huy Man (Builder et al., 1999). She also worked as a teaching assistant in the History Department. The largely [North Vietnamese Army] units we ran into, they were interested in staying and fighting.. OUELLETTE, Robert, fifty, battalion commanders radio operator in LZ X-Ray, left the Army in August 1966. Savage and the 22-year-old medic, Sp5. He remained with the medical platoon in Vietnam until July 1966. 4/C Jack P. Smith (Illustration by Noel Sickles, SEPS) Weekly Newsletter SUPPORT THE POST There is a problem with your email/password. A North Vietnamese map, captured in 1966, accurately depicts enemy maneuvers and attacks during the Ia Drang campaign. That spring, the Saigon government had begun collapsing under the combined. Sandpoint, ID 83864 EDWARDS, Robert, fifty-four, commander of Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Cav, served a second tour in Vietnam as an adviser. On February 26, 2007, President George W. Bush presented Crandall with the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Ia Drang Valley. He is brutally honest, even with his actions as a leader. The Battle of the Ia Drang Valley would be the Vietnam War's first major set-piece battle with the PAVN, the first major US heliborne assault on an NVA position, and the first engagement to employ B-52 airstrikes on enemy ground forces in battle. He won a National Magazine Award for his October 29, 1990, cover article on the Ia Drang battles. Search above to list available cemeteries. Winkel retired a colonel in 1986, with over thirty-one years of Army service. Surprisingly, Adams, Beck's buddy who was shot in the head, was among the. Towles received a masters degree in history from Kent State in 1989, and is currently working on his doctorate. It was the first major battle of the Vietnam War, and Lawrence and . GWIN, S. Lawrence (Larry), fifty-one, executive officer, Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cav in the Ia Drang, stayed with his company through July 4, 1966. He retired in August 1977, with thirty-two years service. He is a colonel and the provost marshal of the U.S. Army Forces Command (Forscom) in Atlanta, Georgia. He owns a property-management firm in Tampa, Florida. Memoirs and histories written after the event capture it . "I realized it when Sgt. Parish now runs the Bristow, Oklahoma, toll gate on the Turner Turnpike. Shucart says, It was interesting; they just figured I was another grunt and I didnt tell them different. He worked as a sales executive in the corrugated-box industry and went to school nights to earn his MBA. PARKER, Neal G., a Naval Academy graduate who transferred to the U.S. Army and was a Huey pilot in Bravo Company 229th in the Ia Drang, retired a colonel after thirty years service. Feb 25, 2017. North Vietnamese forces had higher casualty rates, due to the U.S. airstrike and artillery support. Muscogee County, The North Vietnamese forces had succeeded in engaging the U.S. forces in very tight quarters. They have two sons, one an oil-industry consultant, the other an Air Force sergeant who served in the Persian Gulf War. 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. Among the survivors of the ambush was 1st Lt. Rick Rescorla, a platoon leader who died Sept. 11, 2001, rescuing people from the World Trade Centers south tower until it crashed around him. 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. He retired a colonel in 1981, and is vice president of human resources for a large corporation in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Advisory Group, Pleiku. "I always end my talk with telling my audience 'When people go to the wall [Vietnam Veterans Memorial], they see 58,000 names. U.S. intelligence knew that North Vietnamese regulars probably a single regiment were in the area. KNOWLES, Richard, seventy-five, assistant division commander of the 1st Cavalry Division, served a second consecutive tour in Vietnam, commanded the 196th Light Infantry Brigade, and then was commanding general of Task Force Oregon (precursor to the American Division). In 2016, he joined a panel of Ia Drang survivors at the Maneuver Center of Excellence, Fort Benning, Ga., to share their experiences with both young and seasoned officers and noncommissioned officers. 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 MARM, Walter J. For the Ia Drang Valley survivors, October 10, 2012 will be a day they will remember for the rest of their days. JEANETTE, Robert J., fifty, Ghost 4-6, weapons-platoon leader, Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cav in the Ia Drang, lives in Monsey, New York, a suburb of New York City. UH-1 aircraft of the 229th Assault Helicopter Battalion carry wounded 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry soldiers away during the fight for LZ X-Ray in the Ia Drang Valley of Vietnam. For the next agonizing 26 hours, that small band of Americans was trapped by a ring of hundreds of enemy fighters determined to kill them all. This resulted in the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley, a forested area just east of the Chu Pong massif, from 23 October to 20 November. I fought for this country and now I own and farm 120 acres of my country. He retired as a lieutenant colonel in 1985; on November 26, 1987, he was killed in the crash of a private plane in Bakersfield, California. The battlefield area covered 1,500 square miles of what appeared to be flat rolling terrain dominated by the Chu Pong . "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.'". This is the tale of the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam in 1965. How could I forget? The idea was that whole battalions could be dropped and complete their mission on the ground, calling in artillery barrages, helicopter support, and bombing sorties (including . Westmorelands biggest problem with the strategy was that he thought it would work in two or three years when it would have taken 10 or 12.. He holds two masters degrees, is employed in the defense industry, and lives in Alexandria, Virginia. He and his wife, Ann, live in Lilburn, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta. Many did a second tour and others left the service and returned home to their families. It is republished unedited in its original form. Although each survivor's story is unique, they all carry the same lessons. Things were quiet, but in the morning, the North Vietnamese attacked. He became a legend in the unit for his behavior in combat, and his face became an American icon when a young reporter named Peter Arnett snapped his photo. Since completing her degrees, she has decided to take a step back from academia to focus her career on writing and sharing history in a more accessible way. South Carolina, The battle was later dramatized in the film We Were Soldiers. The bullet was still in there. DILLON, Gregory (Matt), fifty-nine, operations officer of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cav in the Ia Drang, served a second tour in Vietnam as a battalion commander in the 9th Infantry Division and was a brigade commander at Fort Carson, Colorado. He lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and owns and operates a real estate brokerage firm. His son is a staff sergeant in the 82nd Airborne Division and a veteran of both the Panama invasion and the Persian Gulf War. When he retired, Howard moved to Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where he works as a consultant in emergency-management planning. LAVENDER, David A. Charlie Company took the brunt of the assault. He is now a financial officer with the U.S. In four days and nights of fighting. 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. Hal Moore and the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment fought at the former for three days, beginning on November 14. In the same way, the story of his experiences at LZ Albany is a story that could be told by the nearly 400 Troopers of 2/7 Cav who fought and died at LZ Albany, or the 1/7 Cav Troopers at LZ X-ray or the more than 2.6 million US personnel who served in Vietnam. He still grows soybeans and corn on the farm in his spare time. He and his wife, Nell, now are retired and living in Shoal Creek, Alabama. I have it here with me today. He lives with his wife and family in Steelville. Nebraska, A young United Press International reporter, Joseph Galloway, became the only civilian decorated for gallantry during the war, awarded a Bronze Star with V device for valor for carrying a wounded soldier off the battlefield under intense fire. It was the signal for all available American aircraft to converge and provide aid to the American unit. (Tony), fifty-six, commander of Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, later earned a masters degree in psychology and taught at West Point and at the Army War College. The mission of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (VVMF) is to honor and preserve the legacy of service and educate all generations about the impact of the Vietnam War. The majority of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, under the command of Lt. Col. Robert McDade, didnt enter the fight until X-Ray had already been relieved by Moore. In November, troops would take on North Vietnamese regulars for the first time in the Battle of Ia Drang Valley. Although survivors had been trickling in during the morning they thought the 2/7th had been annihilated in the fighting at Albany. If you have questions, please contact [emailprotected]. The communist threat to the central highlands subsided. He and his wife, Martha, have four children. He was first sergeant of Bravo Company, 36th Engineer Battalion and one of 14 men in his 257-man company who survived the opening stages of the fight for Pork Chop Hill. He is a civilian specialist on NATO affairs for the Defense Department; he and his wife, Sally, live in Bethesda, Maryland. BECK, Bill, forty-nine, assistant machine gunner, Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Cav in the Ia Drang, left the Army in 1966 and went home to his native Steelton, Pennsylvania. Hes in a unique position to want to believe these optimistic reports and hes getting a lot of them.. They were unaware that two battalions of fresh PAVN soldiers had been camped out along the Ia Drang River on the other side of the landing zone. In Hanoi, the North Vietnamese leadership was prepared for huge losses. 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. FREEMAN, Ed (Too Tall to Fly), sixty-five, Bruce Crandalls wingman, retired a major in 1967 after twenty-one years Army service. I think this battle pushes Johnson further into Westmorelands corner. This article was originally published Nov. 11, 2015, as part of the Vietnam at 50 project. The North Vietnamese enjoyed numerical superiority in the valley. His friend, James Lawrence, speaks with organizations and Soldiers about the lessons learned from the Army engineer recognized for exemplary work in obsolescence management, Norway adds top-tier military experience to State Partnership Program, Army's Environmental Restoration Program revitalizes contaminated lands, Army Lt. Col. Adams: A pioneer worthy of commemoration, US and UAE soldiers train together at Joint Readiness Training Center, Unified network operations underpins Army's digital transformation, SMA plans to reward Soldiers who meet rising standards. He earned a doctorate in education and is personnel director for the Cooperative Extension Service at the University of Georgia in Athens. He is a freelance commercial artist in Harrisburg and occasionally turns his hand to fine-art drawings of his war experiences. The ending of We Were Soldiers comes once Hal Moore makes the decision to call in Broken Arrow, a request for all available combat aircraft to attack enemy positions. 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. 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. Lawrence dropped to the ground to take cover in the tall elephant grass and began to return fire like any other rifleman. 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