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. 1st Lt. Donald Cornett at his base camp in Vietnam, shortly before the battle of Landing Zone Albany where he was killed in action, Nov. 17, 1965. Although survivors had been trickling in during the morning they thought the 2/7th had been annihilated in the fighting at Albany. The following day, both battalions were informed of an incoming bomber run on LZ X-Ray, meaning they needed to go elsewhere. 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. Each option, he warned, had a good chance of leading to a stalemate. Vince Cantu never went back to his music. The British-born Rescorla earned a masters degree and a law degree at universities in Oklahoma and went into corporate-security work. 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. 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. TANNER, Ray, forty-nine, radio operator, Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, returned home to South Carolina in April 1966 and went to work for a utility company in Charleston. 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. The outcome convinced the North Vietnamese that they could reduce the threat of U.S. firepower by engaging the Americans at close quarters where U.S. airstrikes would prove risky and then melt away into the jungle or across the border into sanctuaries in Cambodia. Weve updated the security on the site. 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. When I go to the wall, I see Don Cornett's name 58,000 times.'. Today, Doc Shucart of Landing Zone Albany is the chief of neurosurgery at Tufts University Medical School. Omaha, 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. Although the fighting had ended, the Battle of Ia Drang didnt officially conclude until the next day, as it took two days to collect the bodies. They have three children, daughters Abigail and Alison and a son, Thomas Alexander. The late Lt. Gen. Hal Moore, author of We Were Soldiers Onceand Young, is said to have closed every speech with the phrase, "Hate the war, love the American warrior." . He asked for a volunteer to go with him and Captain Ed Freeman agreed to pursue it with him, displaying extraordinary heroism. There is a problem with your email/password. He now lives in Dublin, New Hampshire, and works for a firm that sells office supplies. 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. On November 18, 1965, the US forces were able to gather their dead. ), provided the authors with a copy of Diduryks journal and maps for this book. Little did Beck and his companions know they were about to make history in America's first large scale battle of the Vietnam War. USA, West Point, The bulk of the fighting lasted about 6 hours and in that time 2/7 Cav lost 155 killed and 124 wounded. (67 votes) Very easy. Scott says: On the boat going to Vietnam I bet Plumley a case of beer I would be wounded first, and that I would be home for Christmas. He went home to Anderson County, South Carolina, where he is a deputy sheriff. The four day battle in the Ia Drang Valley began on the morning of November 14, 1965 when the 1st battalion of the 7th Cavalry, my sister battalion, landed in a clearing at the foot of Chu Pong Mountain. After a North Vietnamese strike against the Special Forces camp at Plei Me, American forces deployed in an effort to destroy the attackers. Too Tall Ed retired from that job on January 3, 1991. 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. He died less than 100 yards from where his best friend lay wounded. She and her husband live in Annandale, Virginia. 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. Fifty years ago today, one of the Vietnam war's most ferocious battles broke out in the Ia Drang Valley. Assigned as the operations officer of the 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry, Diduryk was killed in action on April 24, 1970, in a Huey helicopter at an abandoned fire base near the Cambodian border. Simpson County, He retired a lieutenant colonel in 1980 with twenty years service, and is now a plastics-plant manager. Today he is vice president for group security at a major stock-brokerage house in New York City. In Hanoi, the North Vietnamese leadership was prepared for huge losses. "To do it you've got to get up. After retiring from the Army, Freeman became the northwest area director of aircraft services for the U.S. Department of the Interior. Thus died one of the finest officers who fought in the Ia Drang. Of Mrs. Mapsons five brothers, three served in the Army, one made a career in the Air Force, and one is a lawyer. I ripped off his shirt and there it was: a groove to the right of his spine. The North Vietnamese forces had succeeded in engaging the U.S. forces in very tight quarters. Tully retired a colonel in 1976. His dissertation is on the LZ Albany battle. I had been assuming that he would get us out of this. 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. McNamara told Johnson that the U.S. could continue with its limited engagement or massively escalate the war with hundreds of thousands more troops. One killed, 15 injured after clashes erupt at Afghan border again December 16, 2022. TULLY, Robert (Bob), sixty-eight, commander, 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry in the Ia Drang, served a second tour in Vietnam in 1968 as a brigade commander in the Americal Division. His personalized license plate proclaims: LZ X-Ray. As the command ship touched down, other NVA soldiers opened up; Myron Diduryk was struck in the stomach in the doorway of the chopper. 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. The North Vietnamese regulars and Viet Cong guerrillas absorbed even higher casualties from better-equipped American troops on the ground as well as helicopter gunships and B-52s raining bombs, bullets and napalm. This account already exists, but the email address still needs to be confirmed. For the last twenty-one years he has been in the tire business. To the Americans, the battle validated their new airmobile strategy using helicopters to move troops quickly into remote jungle areas often without roads and inflict heavy casualties by airpower and artillery. Hear three personal perspectives from men who survived. No one wanted to look weak in the face of communist aggression.. He lives on a farm near Rainier, Washington, and has been writing down his memories of Vietnam duty for his children and grandchildren. He went home to Salinas, California, where he lives with his wife and three sons. Some of the survivors broke into tears of relief. That spring, the Saigon government had begun collapsing under the combined. Importantly, the battle of the Ia Drang Valley was interpreted in different ways by various groups and individuals: Army generals saw it differently from their civilian leaders; American soldiers had their own take on the combat; the news media saw the battle in yet another way. A system error has occurred. NADAL, Ramon A. The airstrike broke the North Vietnamese siege and enabled reinforcements to reach the LZ. He lives in Falls, Pennsylvania. Background. Some of the men who hadn't slept for close to 48 hours closed their eyes, others smoked or ate. He won a National Magazine Award for his October 29, 1990, cover article on the Ia Drang battles. He is now a financial officer with the U.S. After the Ia Drang, Nye finished his tour with the 8th Engineers and the 1st Cav and volunteered for three more tours in combat with the 5th Special Forces Group. He plays volleyball two nights a week to keep trim and has devoted much of his spare time over the past two years to a detailed study of the part played in the Ia Drang battles by his fellow aviators of the 229th Assault Helicopter Battalion, our beloved Huey slick drivers. They died thinking that their loved ones would never know how they died. If you notice a problem with the translation, please send a message to [emailprotected] and include a link to the page and details about the problem. He and Russell Adams are still best friends. Alpha Company arrived in Vietnam with 146 officers and men. He worked an additional fifteen years as a civilian employee at Martin Army Hospital at Fort Benning, Georgia, and retired again in 1990. PUJALS, Enrique, fifty, platoon leader, Delta Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry in the Ia Drang, woke up on an X-ray table first, then on a C-141 ambulance plane, and finally in Ward One at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C. Battalions would use helicopters to be transferred in and out as artillery support came in from above. PAOLONE, Ernest E., Bob Edwardss radio operator, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, died of a massive heart attack on March 30, 1992, at the age of fifty. The service members killed in the Battle of la Drang are remembered on Panel 3E of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. THORPE, Henry, fifty-eight, commander, Delta Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry in the Ia Drang, left the Army as a captain in September 1967, after eight years service, and went home to his native North Carolina. Of the 500 men, 150 were killed and only 84 were able to return to immediate duty. James Lawrence, a 77 year-old Vietnam veteran from Alabama, tells people about his best friend and the battle he died in whenever he gets the chance. The battle at the landing zone X-RAY (LZ X-RAY) in the Ia Drang River Valley occurred from 14 November to 16 November 1965. He and his wife, Julie, divide their time between homes in Auburn, Alabama, and Crested Butte, Colorado. With only 700 effective soldiers left of the original 2,200, the 33d Regiment needed help. They were platoon leaders together in the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division. WALLENIUS, Jon, forty-nine, mortar observer, Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry in LZ X-Ray and LZ Albany, got out of the Army in August 1966. MEYER, Edward C. (Shy), sixty-three, 3rd Brigade executive officer in the Ia Drang, retired as Army Chief of Staff, a four-star general, in 1983 after thirty-two years service. They had this Learning to be a Teacher program; I tried it and loved it. "My gut told me, this is wrong, this isn't right, something's wrong here. Charlie Company held their position, exemplifying extraordinary heroism and courage. Shortly after the battalion set out, the North Vietnamese sprang a massive ambush. The Ia Drang Scholarship Fund was founded in 1994 by LTG (Ret) Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway from earnings on their book We Were Soldiers Once-And Young. . The "Lost Platoon," led by Lt. Henry T. Herrick, became separated from the rest of Lt. Col. Harold G. "Hal" Moore's battalion at the start of the battle of Ia Drang on Nov. 14, 1965. He then formed a computer-software company. Gwin left the Army at the end of his ROTC commitment and went home to his native Boston, where he teaches and writes. The film follows the experiences of both Moore, portrayed by Mel Gibson, and his wife, Julia, played by Madeleine Stowe. He spent that night among the dead and wounded. His primary job is helping communities located near Army chemical-weapons depots write their emergency-response plans. He told me that if he didn't make it, I was to write her and tell her that he loved her. Nebraska, The North Vietnamese attempt one final attack, but are soon overrun and ordered to evacuate the headquarters they took only a few days prior. It was the most successful ambush against U.S. forces during the course of the entire war. USA, Fort Benning, SETELIN, John, forty-eight, squad leader, Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry, left Vietnam with three Purple Hearts and left the Army a sergeant. Lefebvre earned graduate degrees in secondary school administration and public administration. 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. Savage and the 22-year-old medic, Sp5. Your account has been locked for 30 minutes due to too many failed sign in attempts. Roger Gregory is a Vietnam veteran, serving in the 1st Infantry Division and is a business owner in Priest River. Galen Bungum, 72, was a soldier in the Vietnam War and fought in the first major battle of the war, the battle of Ia Drang, on November 14, 1965. 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. Please try again later. I thought to myself. On March 2, 1969, thirty-two-year-old Buse Tully was killed in action. 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. LOSE, Charles R., the medic of the Lost Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, has dropped out of sight. USA, Mendenhall, I think it also speaks to the depths these guys were into the Cold War reality at the time. U.S. airpower lifted the siege and drove back the North Vietnamese. He is president of his own management-consulting firm and lives in Oklahoma City. 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. Word reached the battalion traveling to Columbus, who sent Bravo Company back to Albany to serve as reinforcements. Lawrence's story is one that he has told so often to so many people that it is fluid and impactful without being rehearsed. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Luckily for him, not a single shot he received hit any vital organs. Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. These men survived the fighting in the Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam from Oct 23, 1965 to Nov 1965. After three days of fighting, 240 Americans had been killed and another 300 wounded (more troops were brought in in support). Both later were awarded the Medal of Honor, our nations highest award for heroism in combat. RACKSTRAW, Jim, forty-nine, recon-platoon leader, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry at X-Ray, served a second tour in Vietnam as a rifle-company commander in the 25th Infantry Division. Jeanette spent the better part of a year in a military hospital while his shattered leg was repaired. LUND, Bill, fifty, who was Myron Diduryks artillery forward observer in LZ X-Ray and LZ Albany, left Vietnam in March 1966, upon completion of his two-year reserve officer obligation. Hal Moore and the 1st Battalion, 7th . Freeman reconstituted the unit and led it back up Pork Chop. 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. Nonetheless, this allows a reprieve for Moore and his men to secure the area. Linda Carole Mustion has not added any memorials to this virtual cemetery. The survivors of Landing Zone X-Ray have always had an aura of fame about them. Another 71 Americans had been killed in earlier, smaller skirmishes that led up to the Ia Drang battles. (Purp), fifty, rifleman, Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry, was evacuated to Japan. (Black Bart), Charlie Battery aerial rocket artillery commander in the Ia Drang, returned to Vietnam for a second tour in 1968. Theres a lot of pain but at least I lived. Jeanette says: When I was in the hospital in 1966, I was down in the doldrums, feeling sorry, and they tried to nudge me out of that. Galen Bungum, left, and Joe F. Mackey, two of the unhurt survivors of Lt. Henry Herrick's Lost Platoon. 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. Crandalls back was broken; he spent five months in an Army hospital recovering. The Pleiku Campaign took place from 20 October to 26 . At approximately noon,the North Vietnamese 33rd Regiment attacked. However, theres one part of We Were Soldiers thats different from what really happened: the ending. MERCHANT, Dick, fifty-four, assistant operations officer, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, served a second tour in Vietnam in 1968 as Lieutenant Colonel Matt Dillons battalion executive officer. based on information from your browser. He is senior Army adviser to the 79th Army Reserve Command in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. The men, women, and children of this story are Americas neighbors, living quiet lives in every corner of the nation they served. He was presented with the Medal of Honor on December 19, 1966, and three years later volunteered for a second tour of duty in Vietnam. Being the firstbig units there, we had to make our own camp, no showers for months, World War II C rations to eat, no toilets, just a hole dug in the ground, etc. Spc. Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person. They successfully hit many of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army (NVA) troops, while also shooting some of the Americans with friendly fire. He joined IBM as a salesman in Austin, Texas, and spent twenty years with them, rising to the post of Midwestern regional manager. Why I wasn't killed, I couldn't say.". He lives in Columbus, Georgia, and is a serious collector of firearms and active in a local shooting club. 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. On 27 October Westmoreland committed a brigade of the 1st Air Cavalry to search-and-destroy operations. In 1974 he transferred from the infantry to the military police. Lawrence dropped to the ground to take cover in the tall elephant grass and began to return fire like any other rifleman. 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. These additional troops pushed back the enemy, allowing the others to evacuate the wounded. The 430 troops of the 1st Battalion, 1stCavalry Division loaded into helicopters and were dropped into the Ia Drang valley. ROBINSON, Edward Charles, fifty-five, Huey pilot at LZ X-Ray, served a second combat tour in Vietnam. The idea was to kill the enemy, not necessarily hold ground, and bleed the North Vietnamese until they tired of war. Fesmire is a colonel assigned as the Army attache to the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina. EIN: 52-1149668, Copyright 2023 The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, Javascript must be enabled for the correct page display. The survivors of the Ia Drang on November 14, 1965 to Nov 1965 on Nov. 14 with men. That same month, the United States began bombing North Vietnam in Operation Rolling Thunder. He and his wife, Arlene, have three sonsa banker in Sao Paulo, Brazil; a lawyer in Connecticut; and a divinity student in college. You need a Find a Grave account to continue. He would recover after some physical therapy and return to duty in 1966 to finish his tour. With the arrival on foot of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry commanded by Lt. Col. Robert McDade, on the morning of November 16, there were now three Cavalry battalions crammed into the clearing, including Lt. Col. Walter Tullys 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry. 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. 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 was 92 years old. 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. For the next ten years he was a football coach at Morgan State University in Baltimore, his alma mater. 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. Joseph Galloway was a civilian reporter at the Battle of Ia Drang. Thanks for your help! He died . He left the Army in 1971 with the rank of captain, returned home to Puerto Rico, and earned a law degree. I think this battle pushes Johnson further into Westmorelands corner. "The main point that I try to get across when I speak to Soldiers, and this is what saved me, is the training," he said. But UPI sent him back to Vietnam in 1971, in 1973, and again in 1975 for the final chapter. 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. On the morning of November 14th, the 1st Cavalry landed at Landing Zone X-Ray at the base of the Chu Pong mountain and by noon they were already under attack from the North Vietnamese. 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. 4/C Jack P. Smith (Illustration by Noel Sickles, SEPS) Weekly Newsletter SUPPORT THE POST 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. Between the Army and the Interior Department, Freeman logged a total of seventeen thousand hours flying time in helicopters and eight thousand hours in fixed wing. Adams and his wife have a three-year-old daughter. Survivors described savage, close-range combat, sometimes hand-to-hand, over several hours. VIERA, Arthur, Jr., forty-eight, an M-79 grenadier with Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, survived the terrible wounds he suffered in X-Ray. Since retiring he serves on the boards of half a dozen major corporations and also works as a consultant to defense industries. There were no further attacks overnight. 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. Diduryk is buried at the Fort Benning cemetery; his widow, Delores, lives in Jacksonville, Florida. In January 1968, over the Bong Son plain, Crandalls Huey was blown out of the sky by an air strike while flying a nap-of-the-earth search for a downed helicopter. In four days and nights of fighting. Hes in a unique position to want to believe these optimistic reports and hes getting a lot of them.. The XO was going fast. If you yield to it, it will absolutely paralyze you. In the spring of 1992, Frank Henry was posthumously inducted into the Army Aviation Hall of Fame. After LZ Albany, Thorpe requested a transfer from his company command to the division public-information office and finished his tour as an escort officer for visiting press and VIPs. How could I forget? 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 is a freelance commercial artist in Harrisburg and occasionally turns his hand to fine-art drawings of his war experiences. 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. 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