The 2002 film, which is based on the true story of the Battle of Ia Drang, has been called 'the best war movie' by several ...

The film, based on the true story of the Battle of Ia Drang during the Vietnam War, has been hailed as 'the best war film ...

Hollywood star Mel Gibson leads the cast as Lt. Col. Hal Moore, with critics and audiences praising his portrayal of the ...

Fifty years ago today, one of the Vietnam war’s most ferocious battles broke out in the Ia Drang Valley. But the battle’s true toll would prove to be the hubris it bred in U.S. commanders.

The Ia Drang Valley. It is among the most famous battles in the storied history of the 1st Cavalry Division and the first major battle of the Vietnam War. Veterans from the division gathered in ...

FORT BENNING, Ga., (Dec. 2, 2015) -- The Maneuver Center of Excellence, or MCoE hosted nine Vietnam veterans recalling their parts in the Battle of Ia Drang, which marks its 50th anniversary this ...

Battle of Ia Drang Valley. Nov. 1 brought the first significant encounter between U.S. and North Vietnamese soldiers. A 9th Cavalry platoon was dropped by chopper near an NVA aid station outside ...

The Battle of Ia Drang, America's first major combat operation in Vietnam, began on this day in 1965. Retired Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore, who now lives in Auburn, was a lieutenant colonel and led ...

The Ia Drang battle, re-told in the book that became the movie We Were Soldiers, had two phases. Only the second, a day-long ambush, involving flawed leadership of green troops, ...

In November, troops would take on North Vietnamese regulars for the first time in the Battle of Ia Drang Valley. Gen. Westmoreland, commander of the U.S. Forces, was Time magazine’s Man of the Year.

They traveled from their homes to remember the Battle of Ia Drang and those they had lost in that faraway Vietnamese valley in November 1965. The men, ...