We were soldiers once -and young Ia Drang, the battle that changed the war in Vietnam
In November 1965, some 450 men of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, under the command of Lt. Col. Hal Moore, were dropped by helicopter into a small clearing in the Ia Drang Valley. They were immediately surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers. Three days later, only two and half miles away, a s...
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Corgi Book
2002
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Table of Contents:
- Heat of battle
- The roots of conflict
- Boots and saddles
- The land and the enemy
- Into the valley
- The battle begins
- Closing with the enemy
- The storm of battle
- Brave aviators
- Fix bayonets!
- Night falls
- A dawn attack
- Friendly fire
- Rescuing the lost platoon
- Night fighters
- Policing the battlefield
- It ain't over till it's over
- A walk in the sun
- Hell in a very small place
- Death in the tall grass
- Escape and evade
- Night without end
- The sergeant and the ghost
- Mentioned in dispatches
- "The secretary of the army regrets ..."
- Reflections and perceptions