Lt. Col. Hal Moores 1stBattalion, 7thCalvary wasordered to take on an air assaultin the Ia Drang Valley. He is working on a book on Alpha Companys year in Vietnam. Temperatures reached 100 degrees, and by the afternoon there was a firestorm battle for survival. MAPSON, Betty Jivens, forty-two, daughter of Sergeant Jerry Jivens, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, killed in action at X-Ray on November 15, 1965, is married, the mother of two, and works as a secretary at the Medical Center Hospital in Columbus, Georgia. Jemison works part-time as a security guard in Columbus, Georgia, and he says: Each night I go back to Vietnam to fight that same battle, over and over.. To me that seems proper, and just, and so right.. He is married and has a daughter in college and a son in the U.S. Marines. The Troopers of 2/7 Cav relieved their sister unit, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, on Nov. 16, following 1/7 Cav's three day battle with the People's Army of Vietnam near the base of the Chu Pong Massif. 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). Contrary to popular belief, the Battle of Ia Drang started and ended after the famous landings at LZ X-Ray and LZ Albany. Box 159 The Ia Drang Valley is a valley located near Pleiku in Central Highlands of Vietnam. She is an active member of Sons and Daughters in Touch, an organization sponsored by the Friends of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. After leaving the Army, Braveboy worked as a roofer. Im so proud to have been there and so proud of the guys who were there with me. 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. SMITH, Jack P., forty-seven, returned to Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry after his wounds healed, and completed his tour. Photo extracted from U.S. Army motion picture footage from November 1965. In his spare time he camps, climbs, skis, and fishes for trout in the Rockies. 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. He spent eighteen months in Army hospitals, and was retired, disabled, in June 1975. Ia Drang set the blueprint for the Vietnam War with the Americans relying on air mobility, artillery fire and close air support, while the PAVN neutralized that firepower by quickly engaging American forces at very close range. These additional troops pushed back the enemy, allowing the others to evacuate the wounded. The living, wounded and dead of the first and second battalions of the US 7th Cavalry were flown back to their bases, given fresh food and clothes, and reformed for another day of fighting. In January 1991, General H. Norman Schwarzkopf summoned the reporter to his headquarters in Saudi Arabia and said: Im sending you to the commander out here who is most like General Hal Moore, and the division which has the most challenging and dangerous mission in my battle plan. Galloway rode with then-Major General Barry McCaffrey and the 24th Infantry Division (Mechanized) on a hair-raising tank charge through the western Iraq desert to the Euphrates River valley. Ernie had gone back to his native Chicago and drove a truck for the city. He wanted the Gulf veterans to have the welcome-home that none of the Vietnam veterans got. 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. 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. Shortly thereafter, US units began . How could I forget? When I go to the wall, I see Don Cornett's name 58,000 times.'. One of those soldiers was Army Captain David Moore, 82nd Airborne Division, son of his old battlefield commander in X-Ray, and that homecoming gave George the greatest pleasure of all. About 40 minutes later, North Vietnamese launched their attack, hiding in the tall elephant grass and in stands of trees. Returning home, he single-handedly raised his two young children while earning two masters degrees. Postal Service in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 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. Today he is a city bus driver in Houston, Texas. This browser does not support getting your location. He works for a consulting firm in McLean, Virginia. He works at Fort Benning, Georgia, evaluating Army Reserve training. 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. Successful in their mission, the Americans travel back to their landing zone to be taken back to base. Nonetheless, this allows a reprieve for Moore and his men to secure the area. He died less than 100 yards from where his best friend lay wounded. 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. In the fall of 1965 the Vietnam War was an event most Americans saw as a series of smaller battles leaving little to remember. 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. Somebody grabbed him under his arms and dragged him toward the trees, but dropped him in the clearing where air support was dropping napalm. The Ia Drang Valley is where the U.S. truly went to war. I have it here with me today. He lives with his wife and family in Steelville. The XO was going fast. Each option, he warned, had a good chance of leading to a stalemate. (Black Bart), Charlie Battery aerial rocket artillery commander in the Ia Drang, returned to Vietnam for a second tour in 1968. Gwin left the Army at the end of his ROTC commitment and went home to his native Boston, where he teaches and writes. Alley is general manager of a box factory in Dayton, Tennessee. ROBINSON, Edward Charles, fifty-five, Huey pilot at LZ X-Ray, served a second combat tour in Vietnam. Little did Beck and his companions know they were about to make history in America's first large scale battle of the Vietnam War. But the battle's true toll would prove to be the hubris it bred in U.S. commanders. Spc. He spent that night among the dead and wounded. The Ia Drang Valley is a map featured in Battlefield Vietnam. 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. By the end, there were no officers left and only 49 men that were not wounded. Privacy Policy Muscogee County, 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. You can customize the cemeteries you volunteer for by selecting or deselecting below. Shortly after the battalion set out, the North Vietnamese sprang a massive ambush. 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.. 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. They are stories that not only serve to maintain our connection with history, but also educate us and force us to confront the good and the bad and learn from it. MILLS, Jon, fifty-four, Bruce Crandalls copilot in the Ia Drang, retired a lieutenant colonel in 1980. FREEMAN, Ed (Too Tall to Fly), sixty-five, Bruce Crandalls wingman, retired a major in 1967 after twenty-one years Army service. They saved some 70 soldiers. "I thought I was dying and laid there waiting for death to come. There is a problem with your email/password. After retiring from the Army, Freeman became the northwest area director of aircraft services for the U.S. Department of the Interior. NADAL, Ramon A. Moderate. Vince Cantu never went back to his music. He and his wife live in St. Charles, a suburb of Chicago. 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. 1965, just after the start of the U.S. campaign that led to the Ia Drang Valley. Meyer and his wife, Carol, live in Arlington, Virginia. U.S. airpower lifted the siege and drove back the North Vietnamese. Lawrence, even in his paralyzed state, was able to give some direction to his company. Lt. Col. Harold G. Moore, a no-nonsense West Pointer, was the commander of the . 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His dissertation is on the LZ Albany battle. To use this feature, use a newer browser. Omaha, Too Tall Ed retired from that job on January 3, 1991. Deleting this Virtual Cemetery cannot be undone. Search above to list available cemeteries. He is now an attorney in San Diego, California. He tells his audience this to help them understand. He served in both Brazil and El Salvador, was a history instructor at West Point, and served in the Center of Military History for a number of years. Combat operations at Ia Drang Valley, Vietnam, November 1965. 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. 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. He died . His old company commander, John Herren, and all the survivors of the Lost Platoon believe that Charles Lose should have been awarded the Medal of Honor that they recommended for him. The XO had been hit in the small of the back. Two men - Sgt. They have two grown children. 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. He lives in Pleasant Valley, Connecticut, and works in real estate sales and development. 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. He moved back to his hometown of Tucson, Arizona. 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. In the last operation, his shattered left knee joint was removed and the leg bones fused, leaving his left leg frozen straight and two inches shorter than his right leg. He remained with the medical platoon in Vietnam until July 1966. Don Cornett had a wife and a son, a mother and a father and two sisters. 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. He tried to crawl away and was shot again in the hip. At a surprise fiftieth-birthday party for Ernie, he was presented a plaque engraved with sergeants stripes and inscribed with a message from Colonel (ret.) Linda Carole Mustion has not added any memorials to this virtual cemetery. In the prologue, Galloway wrote: "This, then, is our testament and our tribute to 234 Americans who died beside us in Landing Zone X-Ray and Landing Zone Albany in the Valley of Death, 1965." He wanted to ensure the memories of those who died live on, in particular that of his best friend, Lt. Don Cornett. This was the first and last battle between NVA forces and U.S forces of similar size. Surprisingly, Adams, Beck's buddy who was shot in the head, was among the. I didn't do as I should have.". Purp is married, the father of three daughters, and cuts hair at Gibbs Barber Shop, where he has worked for the last nineteen years. The survivors of Landing Zone X-Ray have always had an aura of fame about them. He is president of the Army Relief Fund and a trustee of the Association of Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy. 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. 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. "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.'". He and his wife, Pat, live in Avon Park, Florida. Setelin is president of the Major General George W. Casey chapter of the 1st Cavalry Division Association and a member of the national associations board of trustees. 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. Today he is vice president for group security at a major stock-brokerage house in New York City. A system error has occurred. He earned a doctorate in history and now lives in San Antonio, where he works in the public-affairs office at Wilford Hall Air Force Medical Center. "When things started it just erupted," Lawrence said. I believe it is so I can share our story.". Charlie Company held their position, exemplifying extraordinary heroism and courage. WASHBURN, Richard B., fifty-seven, platoon leader, 2/20th Aerial Rocket Artillery in the Ia Drang, returned to Vietnam for a second combat tour. For the next ten years he was a football coach at Morgan State University in Baltimore, his alma mater. The North Vietnamese regulars, young men who had been drafted into the military much as the young American men had been, had paid a much higher price to test the newcomers to an old fight: an estimated 3,561 of them had been killed, and thousands more wounded, in the 34-day Ia Drang campaign. Before the Battle of la Drang was over, 305 Americans had been killed along with an estimated 2,000 North Vietnamese troops. Fred Gilreath of Surgoinsville holds a framed photo of his older brother Luther Gilreath who was killed 50 years ago on the second day of the Battle of Ia Drang, Nov. 15, 1965. Poley, a bachelor, lives alone on his farm outside Ackley, Iowa, and in a 1990 letter explained himself far better than we could: Some might ask why havent I forgotten about Vietnam after all these years. . In the end, 79 Americans had been killed, and 121 men were wounded. Battle of Ia Drang, first major clash between U.S. soldiers and North Vietnamese troops during the Vietnam War. "The next morning we were told the B-52s out of Guam were going to bomb the mountains and that we were to move to LZ Albany," Jim said. 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 retired a major in 1980, after twenty years service. He is married and has four children. He was killed in an automobile accident less than ten years later. Both were present at the Battle of Ia Drang, the first large-scale engagement of the Vietnam War. The survivors of the Ia Drang on November 14, 1965 to Nov 1965 on Nov. 14 with men. 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. 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. Col. Bruce Crandall, Commander ofCompany A, 229th Assault Helicopter Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), led the first major division operation of airmobile troops into Landing Zone X-Ray. The conflict is divided into two engagements: the Battle at Landing Zone (LZ) X-Ray and. He won a National Magazine Award for his October 29, 1990, cover article on the Ia Drang battles. Found more than one record for entered Email, You need to confirm this account before you can sign in. He owns a property-management firm in Tampa, Florida. His lieutenants bars were pinned on by General James Van Fleet and, at Freemans request, his first assignment was as commander of Bravo Company. 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. The Tragedy of LZ Albany: Teaching the lessons of a battle lost. Memoirs and histories written after the event capture it . We were caught inside of what was essentially an L-shaped ambush.". He retired a colonel in December 1981, after twenty-four years service. 2 Ia Drang also served as a test for the U.S. military of its new air mobility tactics. He retired from the Army as a master sergeant and, in 1988, became the pastor of a church in Fort Mitchell, Alabama. PLUMLEY, Basil, seventy-two, the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalrys sergeant major, retired from the Army as a command sergeant major on December 31, 1974, after thirty-two years, six months, and four days on active duty, and a second tour in Vietnam with the U.S. Edwards is the acting borough manager of Dublin, Pennsylvania; he and his wife, Nancy, live in nearby New Hope. BARTHOLOMEW, Roger J. Hear Bruces story. Within an hour, they came under attack for the first time by North Vietnamese regulars, launching a four-day battle that killed hundreds of Americans and perhaps more than 1,000 Vietnamese and changed the course of the Vietnam War. The two-hour Ia Drang Valley program kicked off the reunion's final day. The men were still in an administrative maneuver, so when the word to halt came they plopped down where they were. They died dirty. BEAN, Roger, fifty-two, Huey pilot who was wounded in LZ X-Ray, was wounded again in early 1966 in the Bong Son campaign. I have one very vivid memory of the second morning in X-Ray. HENRY, Frank, executive officer of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry in LZ Albany, served a second tour in Vietnam as a battalion commander in the 1st Cavalry Division, later commanded a brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, and was promoted to chief of staff of the 101st Airborne in the summer of 1977. The instructor of that class, Colonel John F. Jeszensky (ret. I ripped off his shirt and there it was: a groove to the right of his spine. In the spring of 1992, Frank Henry was posthumously inducted into the Army Aviation Hall of Fame. Scott and Basil Plumley meet most Fridays over breakfast at a local cafe for spirited discussions of the relative merits of their service, their two 7th Cavalry battalions, and other weighty issues. 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. In addition, they were exhausted from the fight at X-Ray, so it was easy for hundreds of NVA troops to sneak up and launch an attack. STOCKTON, John B., seventy, commander, 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry in the Ia Drang, retired a colonel in 1967. 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