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Corporal William W. Sessions smiles as he displays the holes in his helmet and 3.5 inch rocket launcher following an encounter with the North Vietnamese Army. Sessions and an enemy sniper had their duel during Operation Napoleon Saline northeast of Dong Ha. The corporal smile attests to his victory (official USMC photo by Private First Class E. E. Hildreth)."
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Original description and photo sourced from
the Jonathan F. Abel Collection (COLL/3611), Marine Corps Archives & Special Collections

 

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Bravo Company, 2-3rd Infantry, 199th LIB 9-69 - 9/70. Photos courtesy of Steve Price (via Signal439)
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4 - 16 NOVEMBER 1965 - BATTLE OF IA DRANG or LZ X-RAY - #VietnamWar #Armyhistory #Vietnam #USArmy
After attacks at the U.S. Special Forces Camp at Plei Me on 19 October 1965, Army intelligence determined the enemy intended to cut the Republic of (South) Vietnam in half. The attack was repulsed with reinforcements from the 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), and supporting Allied forces.
The U.S. then turned to pursuing and destroying the retreating enemy. The division sent 3d Brigade to search westward toward the Cambodian border, focusing on the densely wooded area south of the Ia Drang River at the base of the Chu Pong massif, a rugged mountain mass straddling the South Vietnamese-Cambodian border.
Early on 14 November, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Harold G. Moore, Jr., air assaulted LZ X-RAY on a search and destroy mission as two People's Army of (North) Vietnam (PAVN) regiments prepared to renew the attack on Plei Me. Instead, the enemy attacked the LZ from the high ground.
The American battalion withstood repeated mortar attacks and infantry assaults through the night. Supported by the division's artillery and helicopter gunships, strafing and bombing attacks by tactical aircraft and B-52 bombers, the Americans turned back the determined enemy. The next day, 2d Battalion, 5th Cavalry arrived from LZ VICTOR to reinforce Moore's battalion and take the offensive.
The search for the enemy main body continued for the next few days in the vicinity of the Chu Pong Massif. The U.S. suffered 79 killed, 121 wounded, and 0 missing in the three-day battle. Enemy losses included 634 confirmed and 581 estimated dead, and 6 prisoners
The Ia Drang was the biggest, and mostly, U.S. battle in Vietnam to that date.
ALSO SEE
https://history.army.mil/html/books/076/76-2/index.html
https://history.army.mil/html/books/070/70-4/index.html

 

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Hal Moore and Basil Plumley.

 

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Ervin Bostick, Navy Corpsman, treats a wounded Marine during a search and destroy mission sweep in the An Hoa area, I Corps, South Vietnam. Photographed by Jim Falk, 26 April 1966.
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Original description and photo sourced from the US Navy Historic Archive

 

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An Hoa area, South Vietnam. Hospital Corpsman Ervin Bostick writes a tag for a Marine of Third Battalion, Ninth Marines Regiment, who has been wounded during “Operation Georgia” and will be evacuated by helicopter. Photographed by JO1 J.F. Falk, 27 April 1966.
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Original description and photo sourced from the US Navy Archive

 

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Joseph L. Galloway...Vietnam War correspondent and photographer awarded the Bronze Star with Valor for his actions during the Battle of Ia Drang
As the first American ground troops began streaming into the country, UPI transferred Joe to South Vietnam, and assigned him to cover the blossoming conflict. By November he would be embedded with the command unit of the 1st Cavalry Division in the midst of the first major battle of the Vietnam War – the Ia Drang Valley. He would go on to serve a total of four tours in Vietnam – returning in 1971 to cover Operation Lam Son 719, in 1973 for the release of the POWs, and in 1975 for the fall of Cambodia and, ultimately, South Vietnam.
Galloway became one of the most influential reporters of the period and went on to co-author ‘We Were Soldiers Once…And Young’ based on his experience at Ia Drang. Joe Galloway would spend more than 20 years working as a foreign and war correspondent for UPI, causing General H. Norman Schwarzkopf to refer to him as “the finest combat correspondent of our generation.” In 1998 Galloway was awarded a Bronze Star with V for Valor for rescuing wounded soldieries under fire at Ia Drang. He is the only civilian to receive a combat medal from the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War.

Pictured below are some of Joe Galloway's photos.
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Original description and photos sourced by the following: Joe Galloway Archive/UPI/Stars and Stripes Magazine, history.com

 

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Great bloke that Galloway.....what a story!

 

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ohn "Doc" Cicala, US Navy Corpsman with Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 26th Marines at Khe Sanh.
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Original description and photo sourced from USMC Archive

 

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American gunners of B Bty, 6 Bn, 27 Artillery fire a M-110 8 inch howitzer during a fire support mission at Landing Zone Hong approx 12 km north east of Song Be, South Vietnam, 26 March 1970.
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Original description and photo sourced by US National Archives

 

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L Company Rangers, The 101st Airborne Division LRRP/Rangers of Vietnam (1st Brigade, 3-506, F/58th, and L/75th Rangers)
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Original description and photo sourced from:
lcompanyrangers.com

 

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A long range recon patrol takes a rest during Vietnam, Note the CAR-15s which are precursors of today's M4A1 Carbine.

 

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Members of Co D, 116th Engr Bn (Cbt), are served Thanksgiving dinner at the base camp. 27–28 November 1968.
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Original description and photo sourced by Fold3

 

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Captain David Helela, MAAG Advisor, with members of the Vietnamese 21st Division aboard a CH-21 helicopter travelling to a combat drop zone. February 1963
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Original description and photo sourced by vietnamgear.com