*My Dad fought in that battle. He was so upset. NVA had snuck-in and breached his Platoons perimeter during late night and stole his case of 3 musketeer candy bars. He was so angry. He ventured out on his own before sunrise. Where he encountered dead and live NVA. He killed 3 NVA and got his case back. He returned back to the perimeter with his candy saying, "you can kill me but nobody takes my candy. While I'm alive" Dad shared this story with me. Until the day he passed away Jan 2021*
Rest in Peace 2nd LT. Rick Rescorla. Legend of the 7th Cav at the Ia Drang and Hero on 9-11. We are forever in debted to your unwavering bravery fearless leadership.
As a former infantryman, I love watching these documentaries. It brings back memories, and it shows me how big the boots are we are trying to fill. We American combat soldiers stand on the shoulders of giants !!
@@peacefulamerican4994 never met anyone with elbows for arms? What’s your view on American vets plight to recognize what Agent Orange did to them and their children. More so for the Viet
He let me know in a hurry that I was speaking with Command Sergeant Major Basil Plumley when I called him. Soumded exactly like Sam Elliott...he added, "State your business!". So I did and he got really pleasant towards me. When I saw the movie and Hal Moore said that he had made all four combat jumps in WWII plus one more in Korea, my antanae went up. There were only two combat jumps made in Korea and my dad participated in both...plus he also attained the rank of CSM.@paulbrown8370
I had a good friend, a Soviet Artillery advisor with the NVA. He claimed to be an electronics specialist with a SAM division and that nearly 42,000 Soviet advisors in Vietnam serving from 1967-1968. However, I have never seen a documentary examining the depth of the Soviet involvement with either NVA nor “Charlie”. I served as a MARDET USSEnterprise and salute all combat veterans. I appreciate each of you.
The book "We were Soldiers...Once & Young" captures this battle immaculately. There are inputs by numerous men that fought there throughout the book. The horror! The leaders kept passing command duties to whoever was next in line as they were wounded and dying. Rick Rescorla's (look him up) team had a huge impact in the battle. One of the final chapters of the book is "Albany". That's where U.S suffered it's biggest defeat. I think it was like 180 vs 2k NVA. Crazy book. I assure you won't drop it once you start.
@@ragnarulrichson778 how did you reach that conclusion? Maybe you meant this message for someone else . If you knew me at all you would know that where directions on the compass go I’m not prejudice at all although I do have a soft spot down south
LTC Moore and his 1st Cav (AirMobile) proved the concept of Air Assault works. I spent the overwhelming majority of my Army career in an Air Assault BN. Loved it.
One of my uncles was in the 229th as left seater in a Huey. He was in the thick of it at Ia Drang going through 3 helos in one day. I just found out recently he was in VN in 1962 with the first batch of Hueys for field testing with the Special Force. He'd never said a word about that, of course his wife knew as he recorded a whole bunch of 8mm with APO San Franscisco all dated 1962. If it weren't for those film boxes I found I'd never known that.
VICTOR CHARLIE WAS NOT STUPID....HE WAS SMART , KNEW THE TERRAIN LIKE THE BACK OF HIS HAND HE WAS BRAVE IN ACTION.....IN SHORT HE WAS A DANGEROUS INTELLIGENT FOE .
He might of knew this and he knew that. But he couldn't hide form the shelling the planes and helicopter. It cost them hundreds of lives those well beating trails. And the ground attack.
As soon as I heard 1st Cavalry I knew what this was. I was a pre teen and young teen during the war. My dad had been in the 🇨🇦 military and we shared a love of it. I paid attention. I remember so much, but in watching all these documentaries and interviews I’m delving deep into it. It’s overwhelming. So so much respect and admiration for the men and women who went to Vietnam, and after seeing just the small tip of the iceberg, it’s disgusting how the soldiers who fought were treated when they got back. Will check out Part 2.
Just the fact that abaut 5.600 american helicopters were Lost in Vietnam says it all how dangerous were those missions. Those pilots had to have nerves of steel. They were real heros in so many,many ocasions,and they keep being so Underrated until today.
what makes the pilots heroes? They fought for a completely unjustified criminal war of mass murder. The heroic thing for them would have been to desert.
@@gulliverthegullible6667 its obvious that you never were in the Military. Not even in a country with conscription. Loyalty is just another word to you,dont means absolutely nothing. A real Shame.
@@jpmtlhead39 not being loyal to murderers and robbers is not a moral deficit, it is the only honourable option. No, I have refused to join the military because I am no fool and serve no murderous government.
I read from Vietnam perspective, initially Vietnamese took heavy artillery casualties, however in this battle they learnt to grasp the enemy's belt buckle. ie. get close so that they can't bring artillery down.
I remember watching the TVNews as a 6 yr old, always the image of the Sth Viet Army Lt shooting the Nth Viet insurgent in the head, that image never goes away.
@@dougsymsthere’s no real proof of that and it’s likely the accusation against Luan was made up and propaganda. Your comment is a prime example of someone blindly believing politically motivated propaganda without question .
Funnily enough that same South Vietnamese guy fled Vietnam and sought refuge in America and white middle class liberals recognized him and made his life hell but the guy he killed was part of a unit who'd target the families of South Vietnamese soldiers and police
I have the only autographed book of We Were Soldiers signed by all 3 CMH recipeants and Hal Moore Basil Plumley Joe Galloway Bruce Crandell Ed Freeman Walter Marm and got to speak with them via phone and email. Walter Marm called me and talked for 45 minutes. 50+ other troopers also signed. Back of book autographed by Barbara and Camille Geoghan who also sent 30 35mm pictures of the 2005 Ia Drang reunion in Washington DC. Over 2000 hours of research I spent obtaining this treasure.
NO JOKE PEOPLES !! Just nearly 2 an 1/3 years later , mid / 3 - 68 , lost my uncle "Andy " ( Kia) near Pleiku , Central , Highlands ,South Vietnam with the US of As 1st Air Cav. AirMobile / Air Assault Div. @ tail end of bloody TET , 2 wks. B-4 my 11 th bday !! Seen friends brothers , neighbors sons sent to S outhVietnam from 65-69 ; last one hm by late 71 . All palpable PSTD , and " AGENT Orange " issues
I was just reading that the US Army is going to train Vietnam in jungle warfare (because they no longer have combat experience in jungles, while we do from Africa/Philippines). Its truly Ironic.
@@roadbone1941That’s crazy!!! Us training them on jungle warfare? I thought they were born knowing jungle warfare. I’ll have to look that up. Most ironic thing I’ve heard in a while.
I was in Da Nang USMC H&S 1/3/3 and remember filling BC boxes with radio batteries, C-Rats, and crates of ammo, 5 gallon water cans, medical gear, into choppers that were going to Ia Drang; this went on for a least two days. A few medevacs came in and we got them to the base hospital and later onto ships; I guess they were going to Okinawa or Hawaii to recuperate. It was no sleep for a couple of days. We had no idea the hell the Army was going through.
Gravenhurst, Ontario (Canada), is home to a 7th Air Cav. soldier who fought in this battle as a pfc. from Toronto, who went to the U.S. and enlisted to fight in Vietnam. He remembers Col. Moore. He made a career of the Army, having served some twenty plus years and retired as a Lt. Col. I am a Navy Nam vet of VA-192 Skyhawk squadron (airman electronics tech.), who served for two deployments aboard the USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14) and was originally from Pennsylvania. There are other Nam vets who call/called G'hurst their home, including another sailor who served aboard a destroyer and two Marines, one who lost his foot when he stepped on a land mine and another who hailed from a Northern Ontario First Nations reserve and went to the U.S. to volunteer for Nam service. He had been my neighbor and good friend until entering the Happy Hunting Ground. For years, we'd meet monthly for coffee at a local Tim Hortons (including vets from Canadian Armed Forces).
Also in this video when I went into the ARMY my brother had just come back from Vietnam and he didn't want to talk about the war because he saw men either being shot and wounded or killed but in the back of the vc, he could see Chinese and Russian soldiers it was a political war because the president of South Vietnam had asked for help
I was in Iraq and never saw combat (I did convoy security) I used to feel cheated like the guy in the Jarhead movie who never got a kill. But now I feel lucky.
I served with the 173d airborne 69,70, it was always a struggle,PTSD runs rampant in the Nam boys, hell of an outfit,God Bless all of you,Sgt. Gooderum
In this video he mentioned the 1st cav,and when I was stationed in GERMANY my roommate was in the 1st cav but he was a lot older than me and he was a true southern man or boy as that's the way they talk or old timer as he was ready to get out of the ARMY and go home as he had done his time
If they knew the NVA were going to use the mountain for cover why wasn’t it hammered earlier in the conflict by the AF with Napalm to remove the cover?
That's what I have always thought. The mountain was the home base of the nest of VN forces that attacked the SF camp Plei Mei. After all this shit they knew the NVN attacking forces squirreled out of Chu Pong. Col Moore was sent to spook them out and kill them. Chu Pong turned out to be deeper larger than we anticipated. As in Iwo Jima, no amoutn of surface arty or air drop could negate the tunneling and fortress inside. US Army RVN should have learned this by now and dealt with it. No, had to repeat ww2 losses for same. That's the problem with the "move up, or out" promotion system in our military. Can't be good at your job and stay like other countries. Oh no, gotta kiss ass, invent new (old) shit (move the furniture) call it yours and move up. General Schwarzkopf anyone??
B52 air strikes dropped more than 5000 bombs over the Chu Pong massive. The area of Chu Pong mountain was very vast extended into Laos. Very thick jungle vegetation where the NVA had underground tunnel system to get protected from bombs or vanish if they had to do so like they did in the end. The NVA were fighting on their soil and they knew every aspect of their terrain. Having knowledge of your land and terrain is the most important thing in warfare time. Not to mention that the NVA was the most disciplined and dedicated smart army back then. The Air Cavalry fought well and brave for the circumstances and they couldn't do much more. It was a battle where high casualties couldn't be avoided on both sides, and actually the NVA was waiting for US troops to arrive and they were ready in every aspect!
Maybe to maintain the element of surprise or maybe because it was close to Laos LBJ wouldn’t sanction it, but even if they had plastered it with heavy bombing and napalm it probably wouldn’t have been much good as the NVA were dug into the mountain with considerable protection against such attacks.
The Vietnam war was a war the United States could not win how can you beat the enemy in has own country especially the Vietcong and NVA and other military forces in Southeast Asia 🌏
12:01, that was a bit....weird. I read Col. Moore's book We Were Soldiers Once...and Young....it is spectacular. A must-read for any war history enthusiast
I had a friend get killed in an accident of all things. He was in the 319th Transportation unit. He had taken a nap under a duce and half in the shade. Someone cranked it up and ran over him. What a crazy chain of events.
The war was unconstitutional Johnson didnt have permission from congress, according to the Constitution its congress that is supposed to declare war not the president.
You do not want to be caught in an Arc Light run. Been there, seen it. Crew Chief/Door Gunner, Huey, '69/70. I had fun but I never had that much. I was there 4 years later. These guys were true American Heroes.
@@markgarrett3647 The issue is: The problem is geography. Very hot & wet climates don't produce good fighters (look at India or Brazil military history its not great), while North Vietnam was mountain highlands (which does produce good fighters). >Tropical people get too many diseases in their lives making them weaker/tired/stunted, and due its to humidity/heat they get lackadaisical (This is why FARC never got anywhere despite unlimited funding from cocaine). Point is, even if they DIDN'T want to be commies, they weren't gonna fight to defend it (unlike Koreans or Germans).
@@roadbone1941 There were 50,000 Communist Vietnamese combat casualties in 1975 against the non-Communist Vietnamese military. It's not just the climate at all.
Johnson had no common sense, Westmorland was filling him and the college boys on staff with outright lies. Ia Drang was sold as an outstanding victory. Westmorland said give me more soldiers and this will be over quick. At the peak of the conflict (it has been declared a war) there were over 500,000 American military.
Nine moths later and 2000 meters south on up the Chư Prông Massif, my company was in a three day firefight with the remanned, rearmed and resupplied NVA. Of our 95 man company, eight plus KIA, and 20+ wounded. The CO, the Top, two RTOs and the company medic were KIA when a 60mm mortar round direct hit landed in their foxhole. Our sister units also engaged with other NVA units within 1000 meters... This battle did not get the press that Hal Moore's battalion got... Too many dead and too many mistakes...And no press in the field.
This is why we all need to rally around the banner: Those are America's babies and America loves each and every one of her babies. Don't let anyone if them get injured. Not one is to be injured. Effectuate! Make it work! And, if one is injured we will demand a resolve to not let it happen again. America loves her babies!
Vào thời điểm trước 1975 lính bắc việt nam là 1 trong những lính tốt nhất thế giới gan lì ,i chí thép ,kỉ luật cao những người lính mĩ cũng phải công nhận
I dunno how they survived...yeah it was superior airpower and fire support. Still to gather that much support in such a small area takes skills and timing. Gotta hand it to the Americans. But don't forget this battle resulted in a stalemate and the war ended with a North Vietnamese victory.
It never would have if the politicians hadn't called the shots especially the bombings of north Vietnam. Johnson and his cronies made millions off the WAR
You are correct, while every major battle was won by the Americans, we ended up being pulling out because of political decisions. Americans at home were tired of seeing the number of KIA's mount, they started to question why we were there in the first place. This battle was the first major battle between the American infantry soldiers and General GAP's PAVN. A test for both as well as a learning battle between both, how to fight the enemy, 79 KIA 124 WIA
I always wonder what would have happened if we had never gotten involved in Vietnam. Vietnam is an interesting place today, peaceful, relatively prosperous, a communist country in name only. But would that have happened without the war or would it have devolved into what Cambodia is now,.a struggling 3rd world country only now beginning to emerge on the other side? Did the war force Vietnam to modernize more rapidly than its neighbors?
the war against the French and the Americans was foremost a struggle for independence and only secondarily a struggle for communism. The USA prevented a democratic election mandated by the UN which would very likely had the outcome of Ho Chi Minh getting elected and Vietnam reunified with him as president. The USA supported Pol Pot when the Vietnamese fought to end his reign of terror. After the Vietnam war, Vietnam was forced to accept a great degree of capitalism because of pressure from the World Bank, the USA, other capitalist countries, etc. Cuba has developed with socialism, and I believe Vietnam would have, too. Pol Pot's cruel policies condemmed Cambodia to be a struggling 3rd World nation by design. As a result, it still is today. I believe that Vietnam would have prospered even more if US imperialist aggression would not have taken place. The USA will forever be shamed for their crimes against humanity.
So as to be respectful to all of the brave veterans that fought in this war, please re-narrate this documentary using all CORRECT pronunciations, mainly the title name Ia Drang. Dude, seriously? That is an I, not an L. Ia Drang, NOT La Drang. It's pronounced, YA-DRANG. Here are a few more examples, AND you mispronounced virtually every outpost and village. In everyday Vietnam military talk, the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) is spoken as (AR-VIN), and the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) is spoken as (PAVV-IN). AIR MOBILE is pronounced (air mo-bowl). And research "PAVN and Idrang Valley". They've (Vietnam) only in the past few years acknowledged that this battle ever took place because it was never OFFICIALLY declared a war. Many top-secret documents have recently been de-classified due to deaths and/or it's past 50 years. Many "facts" have been clarified and corrected. Even the way LZ X-Ray was chosen was done very underhandedly by an a-hole General named Knowles. He gave Moore a list of 4 possible LZ's, knowing that only one was actually viable, the one that he (Knowles) wanted him to choose. They were dangled like catfish bait on a hook, knowing full well that there was actually thousands of PAVN in that region. We would routinely send in small forces so that no matter how bad the battle, our body count would ALWAYS be less than the PAVN's. So uncool.
Join us on Social Media & Patreon:
www.patreon.com/Militology
instagram.com/militology/
It is pronounced "ey-ah drang", not "la drang"/
Thx! We’ve moved onto a real person VO as the channel continues to grow vs AI like this earlier video. Hope you stick around for more from channel.
@@Militologynbñzz on b BB ñ bc of bkxmxzx x😙
*My Dad fought in that battle. He was so upset. NVA had snuck-in and breached his Platoons perimeter during late night and stole his case of 3 musketeer candy bars. He was so angry. He ventured out on his own before sunrise. Where he encountered dead and live NVA. He killed 3 NVA and got his case back. He returned back to the perimeter with his candy saying, "you can kill me but nobody takes my candy. While I'm alive" Dad shared this story with me. Until the day he passed away Jan 2021*
😂 Marine combat vet here. I feel it. So freaking funny to me. TY for sharing 👊🏻
U kill a viet because of the stolen candy.? Funny story...
😮bs. That's the biggest bs I ever heard
@@ghost4-6
Yeah..I told my Dad same thing. However I later saw some of his pictures.
your father was a brave man , god bless him
Rest in Peace 2nd LT. Rick Rescorla. Legend of the 7th Cav at the Ia Drang and Hero on 9-11. We are forever in debted to your unwavering bravery fearless leadership.
As a former infantryman, I love watching these documentaries. It brings back memories, and it shows me how big the boots are we are trying to fill. We American combat soldiers stand on the shoulders of giants !!
Semper my3brother
I wish that I could thank every single soldier from Vietnam.What a waste of a war and the lost so many young lives.
Not a waist. This war led directly to the fall of the Soviet Union. Russia was drained after supplying N.V. for three decades.
No different than the wars I’ve fought in since VN.
@@peacefulamerican4994how do you mean? The media nowadays is so pro viet-vet! Who are your Nam buds?
@@peacefulamerican4994 never met anyone with elbows for arms? What’s your view on American vets plight to recognize what Agent Orange did to them and their children. More so for the Viet
@@MistyRiver-nu5cu why are you being an idiot asking me an idiotic question? What I stated is true. What is wrong with you?
Hal moore and Sgt Plummley were absolutely brilliant
@@MrSmokincodz Plumley was a Sgt Maj. not a Master Sgt.
He let me know in a hurry that I was speaking with Command Sergeant Major Basil Plumley when I called him.
Soumded exactly like Sam Elliott...he added, "State your business!".
So I did and he got really pleasant towards me.
When I saw the movie and Hal Moore said that he had made all four combat jumps in WWII plus one more in Korea, my antanae went up.
There were only two combat jumps made in Korea and my dad participated in both...plus he also attained the rank of CSM.@paulbrown8370
@@paulbrown8370 no not just a sgt major but a command sgt major
LBJ one of our worst presidents. Westmoreland one of our worst generals. Those troopers were HEROS to do what they did with the leadership they had
Totally agree leadership sucked !!
Him and Custer
Don't forget lying crying Robert McNamara
I had a good friend, a Soviet Artillery advisor with the NVA. He claimed to be an electronics specialist with a SAM division and that nearly 42,000 Soviet advisors in Vietnam serving from 1967-1968. However, I have never seen a documentary examining the depth of the Soviet involvement with either NVA nor “Charlie”. I served as a MARDET USSEnterprise and salute all combat veterans. I appreciate each of you.
LBJ was not a bad president. In case you missed it, he passed the Civil Rights Act.
God bless you all thanks for everything
The book "We were Soldiers...Once & Young" captures this battle immaculately. There are inputs by numerous men that fought there throughout the book. The horror! The leaders kept passing command duties to whoever was next in line as they were wounded and dying. Rick Rescorla's (look him up) team had a huge impact in the battle. One of the final chapters of the book is "Albany". That's where U.S suffered it's biggest defeat. I think it was like 180 vs 2k NVA. Crazy book. I assure you won't drop it once you start.
LTC Hal Moore - dam fine officer who cared a lot for his men - total respect from an ex english soldier
*LTG, and yes
I love north east south and west , up and down are rather interesting directions too
@SillysighBen1 , not at all, american by birth. You, however, appear to be an america hating kid touching marxist.
@@Hyoscyamus369 why do you hate the west?
@@ragnarulrichson778 how did you reach that conclusion? Maybe you meant this message for someone else . If you knew me at all you would know that where directions on the compass go I’m not prejudice at all although I do have a soft spot down south
We saw this in the Movie WE WERE SOLDIERS Starring Mel Gibson as Col Hal.Morre ....NICE MOVIE ...Nice to be watch by Everyone !!!
LTC Moore and his 1st Cav (AirMobile) proved the concept of Air Assault works. I spent the overwhelming majority of my Army career in an Air Assault BN. Loved it.
One of my uncles was in the 229th as left seater in a Huey. He was in the thick of it at Ia Drang going through 3 helos in one day. I just found out recently he was in VN in 1962 with the first batch of Hueys for field testing with the Special Force. He'd never said a word about that, of course his wife knew as he recorded a whole bunch of 8mm with APO San Franscisco all dated 1962. If it weren't for those film boxes I found I'd never known that.
@@LuvBorderCollies😢😢
A big Airborne Salute to you!
Thank you Sir for being a fighting American winning in Vietnam.
Winning? @@AmericanIsraeliJew
My ol man served in Nam with the 101Airborn in 65--67 , and I found out from the start in 1981, not too stand to close to him while waking him up
VICTOR CHARLIE WAS NOT STUPID....HE WAS SMART , KNEW THE TERRAIN LIKE THE BACK OF HIS HAND HE WAS BRAVE IN ACTION.....IN SHORT HE WAS A DANGEROUS INTELLIGENT FOE .
it was his land
This battle was not against the VC. It was against NVA,regular North Vietnamese infantry Regiment.
@@robertthompson4985no it was not. This battle was fought by NVA (North Vietnamese Army) who INVADED South Vietnam.
ha ha ha@@Redwhiteblue-gr5em
He might of knew this and he knew that. But he couldn't hide form the shelling the planes and helicopter. It cost them hundreds of lives those well beating trails. And the ground attack.
God Bless you All that was before my time there 💪 Very Brave men
I have a good friend who was a gunner on the Hueys... Would never talk about it. Except that he was able to get a 50 cal back home somehow........
I wasn't aware that door
gunners used Ma Duce..M60 was the door gun.
Moore was a tough and Soldier his men respected
MY UNCLE SERVED IN THE ARMY HE SAID DRIVING THOSE TRUCKS HE WAS ALWAYS AFRIAD OF BEING BLOWN UP BY A MINE, BUT HE MADE BACK
As soon as I heard 1st Cavalry I knew what this was. I was a pre teen and young teen during the war. My dad had been in the 🇨🇦 military and we shared a love of it. I paid attention. I remember so much, but in watching all these documentaries and interviews I’m delving deep into it. It’s overwhelming. So so much respect and admiration for the men and women who went to Vietnam, and after seeing just the small tip of the iceberg, it’s disgusting how the soldiers who fought were treated when they got back. Will check out Part 2.
I got to meet MSG Plummley at the tail end of Boot camp at Ft Benning .
Just the fact that abaut 5.600 american helicopters were Lost in Vietnam says it all how dangerous were those missions.
Those pilots had to have nerves of steel.
They were real heros in so many,many ocasions,and they keep being so Underrated until today.
Don't forget about the A-6 losses.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻FRENCH❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
what makes the pilots heroes? They fought for a completely unjustified criminal war of mass murder. The heroic thing for them would have been to desert.
@@gulliverthegullible6667 its obvious that you never were in the Military. Not even in a country with conscription.
Loyalty is just another word to you,dont means absolutely nothing.
A real Shame.
@@jpmtlhead39 not being loyal to murderers and robbers is not a moral deficit, it is the only honourable option. No, I have refused to join the military because I am no fool and serve no murderous government.
Great Documentary.
I served under Hal Moore very briefly. He was the CG of Ft. Ord in 1972 when I went through Basic there.
Crazy I know my dad was there for awhile and was in these battles from 60-67 and he never talked about any of it I sure miss him today
Damn son of a war criminal.
I read from Vietnam perspective, initially Vietnamese took heavy artillery casualties, however in this battle they learnt to grasp the enemy's belt buckle. ie. get close so that they can't bring artillery down.
The "PAVN Perspective" is a very informative read.
837 Vietnamese killed and only 234 Americans....says it all......
Dispatches
The things they carried
If I die in a combat zone
13 th valley
🙏
@21 the Vietnamese had no choice but to committed suicide fighting a mighty u.s military
No kevlar.......just green jackets wear vs. machine guns and RPGs!!!! Insane.
I think only the Marines wore flak jackets, or at least, they were required to wear them.
I was 9 years old and 9 years later I was scheduled for Paris Island
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🐉🐉🐉🐉🌻🌻🌻🌻🐉🐉🐉🐉🐉🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻
Heroic men sent to a war that need not to have occurred.
I remember watching the TVNews as a 6 yr old, always the image of the Sth Viet Army Lt shooting the Nth Viet insurgent in the head, that image never goes away.
That was Gen . Luan . the VC had just killed a family of 6 , the media left that out.
@@dougsymsthere’s no real proof of that and it’s likely the accusation against Luan was made up and propaganda. Your comment is a prime example of someone blindly believing politically motivated propaganda without question .
Funnily enough that same South Vietnamese guy fled Vietnam and sought refuge in America and white middle class liberals recognized him and made his life hell but the guy he killed was part of a unit who'd target the families of South Vietnamese soldiers and police
I have the only autographed book of We Were Soldiers signed by all 3 CMH recipeants and Hal Moore Basil Plumley Joe Galloway Bruce Crandell Ed Freeman Walter Marm and got to speak with them via phone and email. Walter Marm called me and talked for 45 minutes. 50+ other troopers also signed. Back of book autographed by Barbara and Camille Geoghan who also sent 30 35mm pictures of the 2005 Ia Drang reunion in Washington DC. Over 2000 hours of research I spent obtaining this treasure.
Wow, that is awesome! What a treasure to get to speak with them so extensively.
U on Facebook
@@briansummersbriansummers2052 no sorry I'm not. Not a fan of suckenberg.
@ghost4-6 not worries would be great to see the book but I'm in Tasmania
I’ll sign
So much bravery and so much incompetence.
Yes them Vietnamese people surely ware brave 👍
This narration reminds me of the A-team. 😮
NO JOKE PEOPLES !! Just nearly 2 an 1/3 years later , mid / 3 - 68 , lost my uncle "Andy " ( Kia) near Pleiku , Central , Highlands ,South Vietnam with the US of As 1st Air Cav. AirMobile / Air Assault Div. @ tail end of bloody TET , 2 wks. B-4 my 11 th bday !!
Seen friends brothers , neighbors sons sent to S outhVietnam from 65-69 ; last one hm by late 71 . All palpable PSTD , and " AGENT Orange " issues
Thanks to our service men! The government lost the war not our brave men! 52 thousand lives were lost and they did not die in vain!
Say it...they jumped into jaws of Death...And they would not have it any other way 101st. Back then SOG.
I was just reading that the US Army is going to train Vietnam in jungle warfare (because they no longer have combat experience in jungles, while we do from Africa/Philippines). Its truly Ironic.
@@roadbone1941That’s crazy!!! Us training them on jungle warfare? I thought they were born knowing jungle warfare. I’ll have to look that up. Most ironic thing I’ve heard in a while.
Looks like a Full Colonel to me , if that was him in this video.
I was in Da Nang USMC H&S 1/3/3 and remember filling BC boxes with radio batteries, C-Rats, and crates of ammo, 5 gallon water cans, medical gear, into choppers that were going to Ia Drang; this went on for a least two days. A few medevacs came in and we got them to the base hospital and later onto ships; I guess they were going to Okinawa or Hawaii to recuperate. It was no sleep for a couple of days. We had no idea the hell the Army was going through.
Gravenhurst, Ontario (Canada), is home to a 7th Air Cav. soldier who fought in this battle as a pfc. from Toronto, who went to the U.S. and enlisted to fight in Vietnam. He remembers Col. Moore. He made a career of the Army, having served some twenty plus years and retired as a Lt. Col. I am a Navy Nam vet of VA-192 Skyhawk squadron (airman electronics tech.), who served for two deployments aboard the USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14) and was originally from Pennsylvania. There are other Nam vets who call/called G'hurst their home, including another sailor who served aboard a destroyer and two Marines, one who lost his foot when he stepped on a land mine and another who hailed from a Northern Ontario First Nations reserve and went to the U.S. to volunteer for Nam service. He had been my neighbor and good friend until entering the Happy Hunting Ground. For years, we'd meet monthly for coffee at a local Tim Hortons (including vets from Canadian Armed Forces).
Eye A Drang ia drang Bad place !
It's La Drang...not ia drang. Been there.
@@dadskrej5226It is spelled Ia Drang and pronounced Ya Drang. Fact
14:40 Kinnard was present with General McAuliffe at Bastogne during the battle of The Bulge. He was a lieutenant.
He fought WW 2?
@@paulchogudo1866 yes.
Also in this video when I went into the ARMY my brother had just come back from Vietnam and he didn't want to talk about the war because he saw men either being shot and wounded or killed but in the back of the vc, he could see Chinese and Russian soldiers it was a political war because the president of South Vietnam had asked for help
I was in Iraq and never saw combat (I did convoy security) I used to feel cheated like the guy in the Jarhead movie who never got a kill. But now I feel lucky.
All part of the cold war
I served with the 173d airborne 69,70, it was always a struggle,PTSD runs rampant in the Nam boys, hell of an outfit,God Bless all of you,Sgt. Gooderum
In this video he mentioned the 1st cav,and when I was stationed in GERMANY my roommate was in the 1st cav but he was a lot older than me and he was a true southern man or boy as that's the way they talk or old timer as he was ready to get out of the ARMY and go home as he had done his time
I'm From the south mide west Georgia, your right we use country boyĥ
This channel is amazing
Thank you! We plan to keep improving quality of content as the channel grows. Hope you keep with us.
If they knew the NVA were going to use the mountain for cover why wasn’t it hammered earlier in the conflict by the AF with Napalm to remove the cover?
The intelligence didn't tell them. They found out when the first batch landed and found a VC scout.
That's what I have always thought. The mountain was the home base of the nest of VN forces that attacked the SF camp Plei Mei. After all this shit they knew the NVN attacking forces squirreled out of Chu Pong. Col Moore was sent to spook them out and kill them. Chu Pong turned out to be deeper larger than we anticipated. As in Iwo Jima, no amoutn of surface arty or air drop could negate the tunneling and fortress inside. US Army RVN should have learned this by now and dealt with it. No, had to repeat ww2 losses for same. That's the problem with the "move up, or out" promotion system in our military. Can't be good at your job and stay like other countries. Oh no, gotta kiss ass, invent new (old) shit (move the furniture) call it yours and move up. General Schwarzkopf anyone??
B52 air strikes dropped more than 5000 bombs over the Chu Pong massive. The area of Chu Pong mountain was very vast extended into Laos. Very thick jungle vegetation where the NVA had underground tunnel system to get protected from bombs or vanish if they had to do so like they did in the end. The NVA were fighting on their soil and they knew every aspect of their terrain. Having knowledge of your land and terrain is the most important thing in warfare time. Not to mention that the NVA was the most disciplined and dedicated smart army back then. The Air Cavalry fought well and brave for the circumstances and they couldn't do much more. It was a battle where high casualties couldn't be avoided on both sides, and actually the NVA was waiting for US troops to arrive and they were ready in every aspect!
Good question.
Maybe to maintain the element of surprise or maybe because it was close to Laos LBJ wouldn’t sanction it, but even if they had plastered it with heavy bombing and napalm it probably wouldn’t have been much good as the NVA were dug into the mountain with considerable protection against such attacks.
Just to mention, Mel Gibson made a movie about all this that happened. The movie is We Were Soldiers. Very good movie.
the US fought bravely despite facing a bigger number of enemies thanks to air support
God bless you fellers ❤
Exceptional Footage.
Yes the movie, we Were Soldiers
NVA's has been credited for the Vietnam war because of thier Soviet (Russians) millitary advisors, and strategic support.
The Vietnam war was a war the United States could not win how can you beat the enemy in has own country especially the Vietcong and NVA and other military forces in Southeast Asia 🌏
The Vietnam war was a war fought communism against capitalism
My brother was in the 101st airborne air assault and done tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I was 12 marines artillery Iraq Afghanistan I may have helped him home
My dad was in this battle 1st 7th cav Charlie company.
It's mobile like a phone not like a city in Alabama.
Later I would become a full Bird Colonel. I was quiz on the this subject.
WOW....thank you and All who served. It was a senseless war....as they All Are...
Col. Hal Moore was a cool dude
He Was on the ground with his men
A true leader
12:01, that was a bit....weird.
I read Col. Moore's book We Were Soldiers Once...and Young....it is spectacular. A must-read for any war history enthusiast
THE NARRATION IS GREAT BUT THE VIDEO FOOTAGE IS NOT THE SAME.
I had a friend get killed in an accident of all things. He was in the 319th Transportation unit. He had taken a nap under a duce and half in the shade. Someone cranked it up and ran over him. What a crazy chain of events.
The war was unconstitutional Johnson didnt have permission from congress, according to the Constitution its congress that is supposed to declare war not the president.
Into the valley of death flew the air cav
How is Ia Drang actually pronounced? Guy in the vid says it like "Iah Drong" but I've heard it as "Yah Drang" too. Can anyone clear that up?
Phonetically - Eah Drang
I’m fluent in Vietnamese
@@blase7733 Thank you so much for the response! I've been wondering about that for so long!
The Video is wrong. You can find it on Google maps or any Vietnam war website. The name of the valley is La Drang. 👍
Went in as Kids ,came out as Men!
Flew in them. Dr Dent astrophysicist Rocketeledyne owner.
You do not want to be caught in an Arc Light run. Been there, seen it. Crew Chief/Door Gunner, Huey, '69/70. I had fun but I never had that much. I was there 4 years later. These guys were true American Heroes.
Underestimated the NVA, less we forget they also whipped the French
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤FRENCH❤❤❤❤❤❤🐉🐉🐉🐉🐉🌻🌻🌻🌻🐉🐉🐉🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🌻🌻🌻🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐂🐂🐂🐂🐂🐂🐂🌻🌻🌻🌻
Sounds Like - “A Bridge Too Far “ version 2 🤔
So sad that the U.S lost this war, but the Vietnam people just wanted to be left alone I heard.
No shit
They certainly didn't want to be left alone against a brutal Communist regime.
@@markgarrett3647 The issue is:
The problem is geography. Very hot & wet climates don't produce good fighters (look at India or Brazil military history its not great), while North Vietnam was mountain highlands (which does produce good fighters).
>Tropical people get too many diseases in their lives making them weaker/tired/stunted, and due its to humidity/heat they get lackadaisical (This is why FARC never got anywhere despite unlimited funding from cocaine).
Point is, even if they DIDN'T want to be commies, they weren't gonna fight to defend it (unlike Koreans or Germans).
@@roadbone1941 There were 50,000 Communist Vietnamese combat casualties in 1975 against the non-Communist Vietnamese military. It's not just the climate at all.
@@markgarrett3647 I would want to be left alone from a brutal colonial regime. That is what the French and Americans were fighting for.
If Johnson had any sense he would have pulled out of Vietnam pronto after this.
Johnson had no common sense, Westmorland was filling him and the college boys on staff with outright lies. Ia Drang was sold as an outstanding victory. Westmorland said give me more soldiers and this will be over quick. At the peak of the conflict (it has been declared a war) there were over 500,000 American military.
GOoooooodddd....MOoooorniiiing vietnAaaaaammm
My dad was spraying agent purple at this time, crew chief for the "White Whale"
At 13:38 you said 2nd lieutenant MOORE when you meant MARM.
Ah, nice catch. Looks like we missed in QC. Apologies for typo and thanks again for calling out.
@@Militology you're welcome
All brave souls
My father did 2 tours when my father came home my life and everyone one my mother's sisters lost what a family should have been
😢😢😢😢
Damn it Brother
Thank you and your precious Familia for your sacrifice to US
Good thing we stuck around to waste another 50 thousand.
Typical brainwashed leftist view.
Nine moths later and 2000 meters south on up the Chư Prông Massif, my company was in a three day firefight with the remanned, rearmed and resupplied NVA. Of our 95 man company, eight plus KIA, and 20+ wounded. The CO, the Top, two RTOs and the company medic were KIA when a 60mm mortar round direct hit landed in their foxhole.
Our sister units also engaged with other NVA units within 1000 meters... This battle did not get the press that Hal Moore's battalion got... Too many dead and too many mistakes...And no press in the field.
Thank you for watching, and most importantly thank you for your service for our country. Welcome home, brother.
Thank you very much for your service, sir.
Schade das es keine Deutsche übersetzung gibt.ist bestimmt interessant
This WE Will Defend
#USARMY
At 3;50, since when was "Albany" and "Columbus" in the NATO phonetic language?
❤ All u.s veterans thank you for service God bless America ❤ 🦅🇺🇲 God bless you all national treasure 🪙
Ant Neee.. Still on Patrol....We Havent...or Will Ever Forget We Have no Illusions............We have a Long Memory................ and a Bloody Grip
The people of Vietnam ware real heroes 👏
This whole operation was plague with upper management failures from Westmoreland up and down the ranks 😢😮.
Poor intelligence , brave Americans.
This is why we all need to rally around the banner: Those are America's babies and America loves each and every one of her babies. Don't let anyone if them get injured. Not one is to be injured. Effectuate! Make it work! And, if one is injured we will demand a resolve to not let it happen again. America loves her babies!
And the rest of the world doesn’t?
Vào thời điểm trước 1975 lính bắc việt nam là 1 trong những lính tốt nhất thế giới gan lì ,i chí thép ,kỉ luật cao những người lính mĩ cũng phải công nhận
I dunno how they survived...yeah it was superior airpower and fire support. Still to gather that much support in such a small area takes skills and timing. Gotta hand it to the Americans. But don't forget this battle resulted in a stalemate and the war ended with a North Vietnamese victory.
Huh ?
It never would have if the politicians hadn't called the shots especially the bombings of north Vietnam. Johnson and his cronies made millions off the WAR
You are correct, while every major battle was won by the Americans, we ended up being pulling out because of political decisions. Americans at home were tired of seeing the number of KIA's mount, they started to question why we were there in the first place. This battle was the first major battle between the American infantry soldiers and General GAP's PAVN. A test for both as well as a learning battle between both, how to fight the enemy, 79 KIA 124 WIA
If we look at war now we use night vision. Since we will have further wars what do we have? I think u know the answer.
Một dân tộc Anh Hùng không bao giờ cúi đầu trước kẻ thù. Việt Nam mãi mãi tồn tại, Hồ Chí Minh muôn năm ❤
The assault didn't work. Broken arrow worked
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🐉🐉🐉🐉🐉🐉🐉❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🐉🐉🐉🐉🐉🐉❤❤❤❤❤❤🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥❤❤❤❤🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
With Americas assets it should have never come to broken arrow. Broken arrow is called because you are about to be over-run
You forgot about Dishwalla "Charlie Brown's Parents."
I always wonder what would have happened if we had never gotten involved in Vietnam. Vietnam is an interesting place today, peaceful, relatively prosperous, a communist country in name only. But would that have happened without the war or would it have devolved into what Cambodia is now,.a struggling 3rd world country only now beginning to emerge on the other side? Did the war force Vietnam to modernize more rapidly than its neighbors?
the war against the French and the Americans was foremost a struggle for independence and only secondarily a struggle for communism. The USA prevented a democratic election mandated by the UN which would very likely had the outcome of Ho Chi Minh getting elected and Vietnam reunified with him as president.
The USA supported Pol Pot when the Vietnamese fought to end his reign of terror.
After the Vietnam war, Vietnam was forced to accept a great degree of capitalism because of pressure from the World Bank, the USA, other capitalist countries, etc.
Cuba has developed with socialism, and I believe Vietnam would have, too. Pol Pot's cruel policies condemmed Cambodia to be a struggling 3rd World nation by design. As a result, it still is today.
I believe that Vietnam would have prospered even more if US imperialist aggression would not have taken place. The USA will forever be shamed for their crimes against humanity.
Đúng vậy
My uncle was there, but refuses to talk a word about it.
Don't forget Robert McNamara,a career politician. Secretary of defence no idea what he was doing!!
So as to be respectful to all of the brave veterans that fought in this war, please re-narrate this documentary using all CORRECT pronunciations, mainly the title name Ia Drang. Dude, seriously? That is an I, not an L. Ia Drang, NOT La Drang. It's pronounced, YA-DRANG. Here are a few more examples, AND you mispronounced virtually every outpost and village. In everyday Vietnam military talk, the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) is spoken as (AR-VIN), and the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) is spoken as (PAVV-IN). AIR MOBILE is pronounced (air mo-bowl). And research "PAVN and Idrang Valley". They've (Vietnam) only in the past few years acknowledged that this battle ever took place because it was never OFFICIALLY declared a war. Many top-secret documents have recently been de-classified due to deaths and/or it's past 50 years. Many "facts" have been clarified and corrected. Even the way LZ X-Ray was chosen was done very underhandedly by an a-hole General named Knowles. He gave Moore a list of 4 possible LZ's, knowing that only one was actually viable, the one that he (Knowles) wanted him to choose. They were dangled like catfish bait on a hook, knowing full well that there was actually thousands of PAVN in that region. We would routinely send in small forces so that no matter how bad the battle, our body count would ALWAYS be less than the PAVN's. So uncool.
Thanks. I went there.
No Plumney?
were these soldiers just set, in the middle of an NVA group of soldiers....like a lot, of soldiers....
we were soldiers
It’s got to suck knowing you were injured or killed to be on the losing side…you know what’s the losers.
7th cavalry Custer’s infamous regiment they had a better outcome on this battlefield still battle strong