MILLS, Jon, fifty-four, Bruce Crandalls copilot in the Ia Drang, retired a lieutenant colonel in 1980. On November 14, 1965, 450 American soldiers of the 1st Air Cavalry Division were airlifted by helicopter to this valley with the intention of locating and eliminating North Vietnamese forces. Facebook Twitter He and his wife, Elizabeth, live in Roswell, New Mexico, where they run an antiques shop. BUNGUM, Galen, forty-nine, rifleman in Lieutenant Henry Herricks Lost Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Cav, left the Army in April 1966 and went home to Hayfield, Minnesota. KLUGE, Fred J., fifty-nine, platoon sergeant, Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry in Albany, retired in 1973, as a first sergeant, after a total of twenty-two years service. A total of 305 soldiers died. 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. (Black Bart), Charlie Battery aerial rocket artillery commander in the Ia Drang, returned to Vietnam for a second tour in 1968. SETELIN, John, forty-eight, squad leader, Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry, left Vietnam with three Purple Hearts and left the Army a sergeant. Luckily for him, not a single shot he received hit any vital organs. Knowles retired from the Army in 1974 as a lieutenant general. It featured a question-and-answer session with some of the battle's key players, including retired Lt. Gen. Hal Moore. Moore considered the outcome a draw. Crandalls back was broken; he spent five months in an Army hospital recovering. For information, the 1st Air Cavalry arrived in the fall of 1965, about the same time I did as a member of the 1stInfantry Division. WALLACE, Bruce M. Jr., sixty-one, Air Force A-IE Skyraider pilot over the Ia Drang, served two more tours in Vietnam and retired a colonel in 1976. This operation responded to the NVA attack on an American . A North Vietnamese map, captured in 1966, accurately depicts enemy maneuvers and attacks during the Ia Drang campaign. 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. On the second day, North Vietnamese forces launched a heavy attack including hand-to-hand combat. In his spare time he camps, climbs, skis, and fishes for trout in the Rockies. A high school dropout, he went back to college, earned a B.A., and was working on an M.A. New York, These men survived the fighting in the Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam from Oct 23, 1965 to Nov 1965. When I was down, men were running past me, swishing the elephant grass and speaking Vietnamese and executing the wounded. His awards include the Combat Infantrymans Badge with two stars; two Silver Stars; two Bronze Stars; four Purple Hearts; a Master Parachutist Badge with five combat-jump stars; a European Theater Service ribbon with eight campaign stars and four invasion arrows; a Korean Service ribbon with three campaign stars and one invasion arrow; a Vietnam Service ribbon with one silver and three bronze campaign stars; and the Presidential Unit Citation badge. 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. 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. He worked an additional fifteen years as a civilian employee at Martin Army Hospital at Fort Benning, Georgia, and retired again in 1990. 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. 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. He retired a colonel in December 1981, after twenty-four years service. I think this battle pushes Johnson further into Westmorelands corner. Translation on Find a Grave is an ongoing project. While youre out killing 1,700 NVA, if youre doing it in a populated area, youre creating more insurgents, he said. 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. In November, troops would take on North Vietnamese regulars for the first time in the Battle of Ia Drang Valley. He is a captain and the commander of Engine Company Number One. 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. Parish now runs the Bristow, Oklahoma, toll gate on the Turner Turnpike. This article was originally published Nov. 11, 2015, as part of the Vietnam at 50 project. Today he is an orchestra leader and serves in the state militia. Although each survivor's story is unique, . WINKEL, Paul Patton, Jr., sixty, Orange 1 flight leader, Bravo Company, 229th Assault Helicopter Battalion in the Ia Drang, served a second combat tour in Vietnam. The majority of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, under the command of Lt. Col. Robert McDade, didnt enter the fight until X-Ray had already been relieved by Moore. Alley is general manager of a box factory in Dayton, Tennessee. (U.S. Army). Its not so much what we went through as it is knowing what the other guys went through. When someone shook me and tried to get me moving I was actually offended. At various times in recent years he has been reported to be either employed or a patient in VA hospitals in Mississippi and Alabama. But Charlie was back in the air, flying F-4 Phantoms, less than a year later. The remainder of the 2nd was left waiting in a communication blackout. "Why did I deserve to live? He is a master gunsmith and runs his own business repairing and selling weapons. UH-1 aircraft of the 229th Assault Helicopter Battalion carry wounded 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry soldiers away during the fight for LZ X-Ray in the Ia Drang Valley of Vietnam. He is married and has a daughter in college and a son in the U.S. Marines. 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. Their mission was to find and kill the enemy. KEETON, James, fifty-nine, battalion aid station medic, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, served a second tour in Vietnam with an adviser group. Photo extracted from U.S. Army motion picture footage from November 1965. A native of Mendenhall, Mississippi, Kennedy was thirty-one years old at the time of his death. Purp is married, the father of three daughters, and cuts hair at Gibbs Barber Shop, where he has worked for the last nineteen years. He now lives in Stamford, Connecticut. North Vietnamese forces had higher casualty rates, due to the U.S. airstrike and artillery support. 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. Mrs. Mapson is a member of the Columbus chapter of the 1st Cavalry Division Association. This account already exists, but the email address still needs to be confirmed. Bob Edwards saying that these were the stripes Paolone earned at LZ X-Ray but never got. The Air Mobile Division was a new concept. JEMISON, Robert, Jr., sixty-one, platoon sergeant, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, retired as a sergeant first class in 1976, after twenty-four years service. Too Tall Ed retired from that job on January 3, 1991. 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. They and their buddies fought off hundreds of North Vietnamese with the help of artillery. The battalion commander had ordered his command helicopter to land and check out a North Vietnamese soldier killed by the door gunner. HAZEN, Robert D., fifty, Lieutenant Bob Tafts radio operator in Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Cav, retired from the Army a master sergeant in 1988 after twenty-seven years service. They saved some 70 soldiers. George found solace in hiking the Maine woods, shooting nothing more deadly than a 35mm camera. The fighting continued all day and into the night with the enemy relentlessly making assault after assault. 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. USA. 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. You've got to be in command and as I was on the way up, with my helmet strapped on, a North Vietnamese soldier in a tree put two bullet holes right through my helmet.". I thought to myself. For the next ten years he was a football coach at Morgan State University in Baltimore, his alma mater. 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. I pulled the muscles in that leg so badly yanking it free that I couldnt walk for three months, he said. We saved so many more people because of that helicopter.. Many did a second tour and others left the service and returned home to their families. He was forty-five. He is married and has two children. I was standing back there in the column and the column was stopped. They were platoon leaders together in the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division. U.S. intelligence knew that North Vietnamese regulars probably a single regiment were in the area. At approximately noon,the North Vietnamese 33rd Regiment attacked. Contrary to popular belief, the Battle of Ia Drang started and ended after the famous landings at LZ X-Ray and LZ Albany. "I realized it when Sgt. Weve updated the security on the site. "I can't even begin to explain it," he said. KOMICH, Leland C., fifty-two, Huey pilot with Bravo Company 229th in X-Ray and Albany, retired a chief warrant officer-4 with more than twenty years service. Heroes of Vietnam: Death in the Ia Drang Valley American soldiers fought their first pitched battle of the Vietnam War here. Savage and the 22-year-old medic, Sp5. He completed 22 flights: Rescuing Wounded in Ia Drang Valley from 2015: https://vvmf.wordpress.com/2015/11/07/he-spent-14-hours-in-the-air-rescuing-wounded-in-the-ia-drang-valley/, Stars and Stripes Article: https://www.stripes.com/news/special-reports/vietnam-stories/1965/ia-drang-valley-where-the-us-truly-went-to-war-1.376662, Larry Gwin | VVMF: https://youtu.be/_PDBgEu4cx4, Jon Wallenius | VVMF: https://youtu.be/Qb9a1L4rc2g, Bruce Crandall | VVMF: https://youtu.be/SSNTph4QQ2g, Joe Galloway | VVMF: https://youtu.be/N6XXcDATAgE, Faces Never Forgotten with Joe Galloway: https://www.facebook.com/VietnamVeteransMemorialFund/videos/2239219906358006/, National Geographic Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLyBazkpUFQ, 1965 CBS Special News Report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx1rzDNcFmE, AARP Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKtWX9TDFYc, Military.com In Depth Look: https://www.military.com/video/operations-and-strategy/vietnam-war/the-battle-of-la-drang/2071462322001, Medal of Honor Recipient Bruce Crandall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIAEcZ29aG4, Medal of Honor Recipient Ed Freeman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdDYNI7V0co, Medal of Honor Recipient Walter Marm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7-U0FBiYUU, Docs Teach (National Archives): https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/battle-la-drang-valley, PBS Clip (Plei Me and la Drang): https://whut.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/c27a31b7-14fc-4c5f-804e-168fbb24f5ed/plei-mei-and-the-ia-drang-valley-clip-the-vietnam-war/, Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund | 3033 Wilson Blvd, Suite 300 | Arlington VA 22201 | 202.393.0090 There is a problem with your email/password. He shares this message with the groups he speaks to, but being able to impart some wisdom and knowledge from his experiences to Soldiers is special to him, because for him it is an opportunity to maybe bring a Soldier home safely. I couldn't grasp it.". (AP Photo) A wounded American soldier is aided to a helicopter for evacuation from Ia Drang Valley area, near Plei Me, Vietnam, November 18, 1965. 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.. Word reached the battalion traveling to Columbus, who sent Bravo Company back to Albany to serve as reinforcements. Resend Activation Email, Please check the I'm not a robot checkbox, If you want to be a Photo Volunteer you must enter a ZIP Code or select your location on the map. About 40 minutes later, North Vietnamese launched their attack, hiding in the tall elephant grass and in stands of trees. Carrara says, I dont dwell on Vietnam, but now and then I hear something or smell something and flash back to those days. 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 Colorado Springs, Colorado, and owns and operates a real estate brokerage firm. He retired from the Army as a staff sergeant in 1976, and now serves in the Alabama National Guard. He is a colonel and the provost marshal of the U.S. Army Forces Command (Forscom) in Atlanta, Georgia. It was the signal for all available American aircraft to converge and provide aid to the American unit. Hal Moore ensured that all of the men came home, and they therefore did . Lt. Don Cornett, along with 154 troopers from 2/7 Cav, were killed in the Ia Drang Valley at a small clearing known as Landing Zone Albany. Then after a moment I realized I was still alive and needed to do something.". For the Ia Drang Valley survivors, October 10, 2012 will be a day they will remember for the rest of their days. It was fifty-five years ago on November 14, 1965, the First Cavalry Division commanded by Lt. Col. Hal Moore landed in the Ia (pronounced Eye) Drang Valley, South Vietnam. . MICELI, Carmen, forty-eight, rifleman, Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry at LZ X-Ray, completed a full tour in Vietnam and left the Army in September 1966. On his chest he wore the Silver Star, the Bronze Star, and five Purple Hearts. Your donation to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund will help expand our mission to honor, educate and heal. The American death toll was a shock to President Lyndon Johnson, who immediately dispatched Defense Secretary Robert McNamara to Saigon to find out what was going on. In Hanoi, the North Vietnamese leadership was prepared for huge losses. From the lack of training and understanding of the situation to the haphazard way they conducted their movement and their halt. 208-263-9534. Battalion Commander Lieutenant Colonel Hal Moore and his men continued on, receiving support from artillery units and air strikes, helping the American troops hold themselves against the enemy. Photo extracted from U.S. Army motion picture footage from November 1965. USA, Scranton, Initially, Lawrence's thoughts and feelings after he was safe were just moments captured in his mind. His son is a staff sergeant in the 82nd Airborne Division and a veteran of both the Panama invasion and the Persian Gulf War. "They (the PAVN) were everywhere on our right flank, even in the trees. Lawrence, even in his paralyzed state, was able to give some direction to his company. 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. He returned to active duty in July 1966, and served a second tour in Vietnam as an adviser in Long Binh district. The column was strung out about 550 yards in the open with dense vegetation to their right. (U.S. Army), This strategy, as flawed as it was, had some potentiality of working, Wiest, the historian, said. "Back then Stars and Stripes would carry the casualty reports and I had a red pen and started checking off the names of guys I knew who were listed as KIA. Each side realized it was fighting a war of attrition. Fought between November 14th and 18th of 1965, around the hills surrounding the valley of Ia Drang, on the Central Highlands of South Vietnam. JOHNS, Barbara Geoghegan, fifty, widow of Lieutenant John Lance (Jack) Geoghegan of the 2nd Platoon, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, killed in action in X-Ray, married Lieutenant Colonel John Johns in 1969. (Joe), fifty, platoon leader, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry and the only man to receive the Medal of Honor, Americas highest decoration for valor, in the Ia Drang campaign, is a colonel and still on active duty after twenty-eight years. 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. The largely [North Vietnamese Army] units we ran into, they were interested in staying and fighting.. To replenish his battered forces, the North Vietnamese commander ordered the 2,000 soldiers of his reserve regiment, the 66th, forward from its staging area in Cambodia into the Ia Drang valley. He and his wife, Ann, live in Lilburn, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta. They have two grown children and one still at home. 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. "The fear factor, when you know someone is within yards of you and is trying to kill you desperately, the fear factor can shut you down. 4/C Jack P. Smith (Illustration by Noel Sickles, SEPS) Weekly Newsletter SUPPORT THE POST Surprisingly, Adams, Beck's buddy who was shot in the head, was among the. James T. Lawrence, a first lieutenant in the Battle of Ia Drang Valley, learned a lesson in leadership the hard way 50 years ago. 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. Joseph Galloway was a civilian reporter at the Battle of Ia Drang. They never did. CRANDALL, Bruce, fifty-nine, who commanded the helicopters in the Ia Drang Valley, returned to Vietnam for a second tour in 1967. The IDV is the valley through which the river (Ia) Drang flows and is drained by the Ia Drang, Ia Puck and an extensive network of small streams flowing west and southwest across the Cambodian border into the Mekong River. 2023 Stars and Stripes. Charlie Company held their position, exemplifying extraordinary heroism and courage. Freeman and his wife, Barbara, live in Boise, Idaho. Recalling the aftermath of the fight, he said, Back then Stars and Stripes would carry the casualty reports and I had a red pen and started checking off the names of guys I knew who were listed as KIA. They didnt discover I was a doctor until the day I was dischargedwhen I had a long talk with them about treating their patients like pieces of meat. He was discharged in November 1966, and wound up in Boston in 1981. 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