Crandalls back was broken; he spent five months in an Army hospital recovering. He works at Fort Benning, Georgia, evaluating Army Reserve training. It had been a small undeclared war mainly fought by South Vietnamese troops with a few U.S. advisers in the mix, sometimes on the ground, sometimes in helicopters, said Andrew Wiest, a history professor at the University of Southern Mississippi and the founding director of its Dale Center for the Study of War and Society. He spent eighteen months in Army hospitals, and was retired, disabled, in June 1975. It was the first major combat action between U.S. ground forces and the North Vietnamese Army. It was a battle between one US division and three NVA regiments. He knew he had to get out of the clearing, so he started pulling himself along the ground using only his arms, when someone grabbed him and dragged him the rest of the way into the trees. That is the theme of Lawrence's book and of his talks. He won a National Magazine Award for his October 29, 1990, cover article on the Ia Drang battles. Today he is a city bus driver in Houston, Texas. Their mission was to find and kill the enemy. 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 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. 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. It was a small football size clearing for the first helicopters to be used in combat. 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HAZEN, Robert D., fifty, Lieutenant Bob Tafts radio operator in Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Cav, retired from the Army a master sergeant in 1988 after twenty-seven years service. MICELI, Carmen, forty-eight, rifleman, Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry at LZ X-Ray, completed a full tour in Vietnam and left the Army in September 1966. Advisory Group, Pleiku. The Battle of Ia Drang was the first major engagement during the Vietnam War, between members of the U.S. Army and the Peoples Army of North Vietnam. As one writer concluded, "The Ia Drang Valley is where the U.S. truly went to war," and it "set the tone for the" many years of relentless fighting that would follow. SAVAGE, Ernie, forty-eight, the fourth man to inherit command of Lieutenant Henry Herricks 2nd Platoon, the Lost Platoon of Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry at LZ X-Ray, retired a sergeant first class in 1982 after twenty years active duty. TADEMY, Dudley, 3rd Brigade fire-support coordinator in the Ia Drang, served a second tour in Vietnam with the 1st Cavalry and retired a colonel in January 1987, after thirty years service. Rosemary Giles is a history content writer with Hive Media. Some of the men who hadn't slept for close to 48 hours closed their eyes, others smoked or ate. GILREATH, Larry M., platoon sergeant, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, did two more tours in Southeast Asia and retired a master sergeant in April 1972. Vince Cantu never went back to his music. LZ Albany is essentially two clearings with a large copse of trees in the middle. He is a freelance commercial artist in Harrisburg and occasionally turns his hand to fine-art drawings of his war experiences. A high school dropout, he went back to college, earned a B.A., and was working on an M.A. "The way it was presented, at least from my perspective, was we were making an administrative move to be airlifted out so we wouldn't be in the way of the bombers.". His dissertation is on the LZ Albany battle. They were platoon leaders together in the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division. Among the many survivors of the ambush was 1st Lt. Rick Rescorla, a platoon chief who died Sept. 11, 2001, rescuing individuals from the World Commerce Heart's south tower till it crashed round him. 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. Most of the planes touched down between midnight and six A.M., but George Nye was always there, rain or shine. 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. One infantry company began the day of Nov. 14 with 110 men. He was discharged a sergeant, completed his college education, and is now an on-air national news correspondent for ABC Televisions Weekend News. This allowed troops to be quickly brought in and out for battle. ADAMS, Warren, sixty-two, first sergeant, Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Cav in the Ia Drang, retired in 1968 as the best-educated command sergeant major in the Army. I didn't do as I should have.". PARISH, Willard, fifty-one, mortarman in Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, who won the Silver Star for his work as a machine gunner in LZ X-Ray, was among the draftees who rotated home in December 1965 for discharge. A North Vietnamese map, captured in 1966, accurately depicts enemy maneuvers and attacks during the Ia Drang campaign. More than anything else in the world I would like to be back in the Green Machine, he says. The XO was going fast. 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. On November 18, 1965, the US forces were able to gather their dead. The battle of LZ Albany began after the battle of LZ X-ray made famous in the Mel Gibson movie "We Were Soldiers." Crandall and Freeman successfully rescued some 70 wounded men. Due to a statute of limitations being lifted, Freeman was awarded the Medal of Honor on July 16, 2001. Fesmire is a colonel assigned as the Army attache to the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Another 71 Americans had been killed in earlier, smaller skirmishes that led up to the Ia Drang battles. Don Cornett had a wife and a son, a mother and a father and two sisters. 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. copyright 2023 USA, Fort Benning, Savage and the 22-year-old medic, Sp5. Edwards is the acting borough manager of Dublin, Pennsylvania; he and his wife, Nancy, live in nearby New Hope. "Back then Stars and Stripes would carry the casualty reports and I had a red pen and started checking off the names of guys I knew who were listed as KIA. Hear three personal perspectives from men who survived. After several routine lifts into the area,the men on the ground came under attack from the North Vietnamese Army. 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. Many did a second tour and others left the service and returned home to their families. The fighting continued for three hours. Next, he was shot in the chest; as he moved around, he was shot again in the leg. He had . MILLS, Jon, fifty-four, Bruce Crandalls copilot in the Ia Drang, retired a lieutenant colonel in 1980. They died hot, hungry and exhausted. Memoirs and histories written after the event capture it . He was evacuated, badly wounded, on January 5, 1970, after serving four years, eight months, and ten days in Vietnam. He went home to Murphysboro, Illinois. On his chest he wore the Silver Star, the Bronze Star, and five Purple Hearts. He is senior Army adviser to the 79th Army Reserve Command in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. She and her husband live in Annandale, Virginia. Clinton Poley was an assistant machine gunner, who said they landed in grass that was 5 feet high and didnt know where the other troops were. They have two grown children. He and his wife live in St. Charles, a suburb of Chicago. 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. In March 1991 he found a new purpose in life: meeting the chartered airliners touching down at Bangor International Airport, the first American landfall, bringing American soldiers home from the Persian Gulf. Pronunciation of Ia Drang with 6 audio pronunciations. George found solace in hiking the Maine woods, shooting nothing more deadly than a 35mm camera. P.O. 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. Adams and his wife have a three-year-old daughter. 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. SELLECK, Pat, fifty-one, radio operator, recon platoon, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry at X-Ray, was discharged from the Army on November 29, 1965, and returned to his old job at the telephone company. One killed, 15 injured after clashes erupt at Afghan border again December 16, 2022. Moore, who says he graduated from West Point by the skin of my teeth, was the first Army officer of his class (1945) to achieve one-, two-, and three-star rank. For the last twenty-two years he has worked for the North Bergen, N.J., fire department. Her mother, who never remarried, died in 1986. He is president of the Army Relief Fund and a trustee of the Association of Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy. He served as city manager of Dunsmuir, California, from 1977 to 1980, when he moved to Mesa, Arizona, where he is the citys manager of public works. 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. POLEY, Clinton, forty-eight, assistant machine gunner, 2nd Platoon, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry in the Ia Drang, was discharged from Fitzsimmons Army Hospital in Denver, Colorado, early in 1966, and went home to Iowa and the family farm. Today he is vice president for group security at a major stock-brokerage house in New York City. 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. They successfully hit many of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army (NVA) troops, while also shooting some of the Americans with friendly fire. 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.. "I realized it when Sgt. Moore commanded the 7th Infantry Division in Korea, was commanding general at Fort Ord, California, and then was the Armys deputy Chief of Staff for personnel. . Lt. Col. Hal Moores 1stBattalion, 7thCalvary wasordered to take on an air assaultin the Ia Drang Valley. Omaha, Married and the father of three children, Winter works for the Long Island Railroad and lives in Howard Beach, Queens, New York. Other donors to the fund are readers of the book from across America, Veterans, and supporters of the fund. STOCKTON, John B., seventy, commander, 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry in the Ia Drang, retired a colonel in 1967. It would remain the U.S. militarys single bloodiest day in Vietnam through the entire war. Feb 25, 2017. He says he did a lot of praying during the Persian Gulf War, when his son, his brother, and his old friend Galloway were all on the battlefield. 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. After two days of intense North Vietnamese attacks and mounting casualties, Moore radioed the code word Broken Arrow, calling for all available aircraft to rescue an American unit about to be overrun. 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. He retired in 1990. He is a civilian specialist on NATO affairs for the Defense Department; he and his wife, Sally, live in Bethesda, Maryland. He and his wife have two teenage children. when I said to hell with it. He and his wife own and manage a trailer park, and Kluges night job is corrections officer for the Arizona State Department of Corrections. The location of the battle, far into the jungle from any roads, meant troops had to be airlifted in. He left the Army in 1971 with the rank of captain, returned home to Puerto Rico, and earned a law degree. Purp is married, the father of three daughters, and cuts hair at Gibbs Barber Shop, where he has worked for the last nineteen years. Tully retired a colonel in 1976. Your account has been locked for 30 minutes due to too many failed sign in attempts. . Galen Bungum, left, and Joe F. Mackey, two of the unhurt survivors of Lt. Henry Herrick's Lost Platoon. The battle was the culmination of Operation Silver Bayonet I, a combined American-South Vietnamese offensive to relieve the . Each side realized it was fighting a war of attrition. But Westmoreland believed the battle validated the airmobile tactic of quick strikes to catch the enemy off guard, kill as many as possible and withdraw back to base. RUDEL, Karen Metsker, twenty-eight, daughter of Captain Thomas Metsker, intelligence officer, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry in Landing Zone X-Ray, killed in action November 14, 1965, lives in the Boston suburbs with her husband, Scott. It is laced with hard facts, observations, anger, sadness and even some humor. The service members killed in the Battle of la Drang are remembered on Panel 3E of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. He spent thirty-two months in the hospital recovering from the wounds he suffered in LZ X-Ray. There's captains and majors and colonels and I assume they know what they are doing. He is partly paralyzed as a result of his terrible wound. Privacy Policy 1/7 Cavalry lands at LZ X-Ray. After Vietnam, Hazen maintained a correspondence with the mother of the young lieutenant who died in his arms. 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. The . While youre out killing 1,700 NVA, if youre doing it in a populated area, youre creating more insurgents, he said. By whatever measure, the chaotic, bloody Battle of the Ia Drang Valley set the tone for the rest of war. 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. I think it also speaks to the depths these guys were into the Cold War reality at the time. 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. It was his positive decision to do something that reinforced my own will to go on.". He and his wife and their four Saint Bernard dogs live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Very difficult. "I thought I was dying and laid there waiting for death to come. Ernie had gone back to his native Chicago and drove a truck for the city. He lives in Columbus, Georgia, and is a serious collector of firearms and active in a local shooting club. They had this Learning to be a Teacher program; I tried it and loved it. When I go to the wall, I see Don Cornett's name 58,000 times.'. 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. He tried to crawl away and was shot again in the hip. Cash retired from active duty as a colonel in September of 1992 and lives in the Washington, D.C., area. After they were airlifted out of the combat zone, McDades men were joined by the 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment. November 14, 1965 marked a pivotal moment in U.S. involvement in Vietnam. On January 31, 1966, The New York Times profiled Moore as The Man Who Can Find the Viet Cong. He pressed for another assignment to troop command in Vietnam, only to be told that he had already had his turn. Simpson County, 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. "I can't even begin to explain it," he said. He retired from the Army as a master sergeant and, in 1988, became the pastor of a church in Fort Mitchell, Alabama. Shucart says, It was interesting; they just figured I was another grunt and I didnt tell them different. He is now a financial officer with the U.S. The following is a partial accounting, prepared in 1992, of where some of them are and what they have done with their lives: 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. He retired a major in 1980, after twenty years service. (Joe), fifty, platoon leader, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry and the only man to receive the Medal of Honor, Americas highest decoration for valor, in the Ia Drang campaign, is a colonel and still on active duty after twenty-eight years. Enlisted men may scoff at officers back in the billets but when the fighting begins, the men automatically become dependent upon them. MCDADE, Robert, seventy, who commanded the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry in the Ia Drang, retired a colonel in 1975. Background. Please ensure you have given Find a Grave permission to access your location in your browser settings. Gwin left the Army at the end of his ROTC commitment and went home to his native Boston, where he teaches and writes. He is a captain and the commander of Engine Company Number One. They died thinking that their loved ones would never know how they died. MARUHNICH, John, sixty-two, mortar sergeant, Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry in LZ X-Ray, retired a sergeant first class in 1974 with twenty-four years service. 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. Before the Battle of la Drang was over, 305 Americans had been killed along with an estimated 2,000 North Vietnamese troops. The survivors of the Ia Drang on November 14, 1965 to Nov 1965 on Nov. 14 with men. He retired in August 1990, and now lives in Peekskill, New York. 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