with Joe Galloway, and photos from "We Were Soldiers" Find original prints from the Battle of Ia Drang at www.weweresoldiers.net. The Ia Drang River Campaign of early November is an example. We celebrate the history and contemporary creativity of the world's oldest living culture and pay respect to Elders past, present and future. After a short stay, Merron grabbed another chopper going back to Camp Holloway, and the word spread quickly that a battalion of Americans had been massacred in the valley. One is to go now for a compromise solution (something substantially less than the favorable outcome I described in my memorandum of November 3) and hold further deployments to a minimum. Its insane to think that these three young children with grenades were going off to fight the Viet Minh army. U.S. killed-in-action can be expected to reach 1,000 a month, and the odds are even that we will be faced in early 1967 with a no-decision at an even higher level. It was, he said, a meeting engagement. Casualties were light to moderate, he added. Joe Galloway. Joe Galloway, a young reporter from United Press International, was with the American troops during the battle and found himself covering the fighting and also participating in it. The luck was with Moore. $5.02. This was 1965 and we had never heard of Post-Traumatic Stress. We Were Soldiers Once.and Young: Ia Drang - the Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam by Harold G. Moore, Joseph L. Galloway. He didnt know that before Purdies persistence finally earned him a transfer to the infantry, he had taken courses at the Marine Corps Institute, confident that the transfer would come and he would be ready. A class of prime youth shredded in seconds. To that point, some 1,100 Americans in total had died in the United States slow-growing but ever-deepening involvement in South Vietnam, most of them by twos and threes in a war where Americans were advisers to the South Vietnamese battalions fighting Viet Cong guerrillas. I almost did not make the photo the man with the flag and Nixon on top of the aircraft stairs. Suddenly, enemy mortars exploded among the Americans signaling the PAVN attack, and they charged through the tall grass and cut through the thin line of Cavalry troops strung out along the trail. Vince Cantu and I went through school together right to graduation with the Refugio High School Class of 1959 a total of 55 of us. General Knowles called a news conference late on the 18th in a tent at Holloway. One of Westmorelands brighter young aides later would write, a strategy of attrition is proof that you have no strategy at all. In any event, the strategy was an utter failure. 2023 TIME USA, LLC. Knight Ridder asked me to write a memo for our reporters telling them how to cover so dangerous an operation without getting killed out of It Didnt End Well. Thats about six times the rate of PTSD of other professions. Carry The Challenge Article It is not often you see enemies cradling each other. Urge them to get some counselling; to spend some time talking with others afflicted by PTSD. So I just moved on with my life and career. We should be aware that deployments of the kind I have recommended will not guarantee success. (b) Any person found guilty of larceny or wrongful appropriation shall be punished as a court-martial may direct. We were positioned at a little airport in Sioux City. LARCENY AND WRONGFUL APPROPRIATION, The time Bruce Crandall Medal of Honor winner, was caught [ steal ]trying to sling load a 10. kilowatt generator off it pad on an airbase. But Im fascinated by the photograph because of the man behind the camera: Yoichi Okamoto. This sprang from a soldierly admiration for their dedication and bravery qualities difficult to discern in the average government soldier. Another political decision flowing out of the Johnson White Houselimiting the tour of duty in Vietnam to 12 months (13 months for Marines)would soon begin to bite hard. We are in a small hamlet near Dakto late in 1967, barely two months away from the Tt Offensive. The book was later adapted. you dont. The platoon of Americans held their breath and their fire until they heard the louder clanking noise of the enemys heavy weapons company moving into the kill zone. Joe Lee Galloway got a Draft Deferment,during the Vietnam War. Journalists deploy to war zones and others areas of catastrophe on an almost daily basis. Joe Lee Galloway went to Vietnam 4 times,I have PTSD., Karen Spears Zacharias If we have a loved one suffering from PTSD what kind of things should we know/do to help them?, Joe Lee Galloway Urge them to get some counselling; to spend some time talking with others afflicted by PTSD.. I notice that as the years dwindle down to a precious few I weep a lot more often as the memories cross my mind. His bosses read the papers and discovered they had a real hero pushing one of their buses. they were young and brave ltg hal moore s return to ia drang valley 1993. The written account around the photograph and a dozen others that brought Operation Prairie to LIFEs readers told of infiltrating troops and of efforts to thwart them of hills taken and given up. The caption provides pertinent information about the circumstance: the who, what and where. The enemy commander, Lt. Col. Nguyen Hu An, had kept one of the battalions of the 66th Regiment in reserve, and unbeknownst to the Americans that battalion was taking a lunch break just off the trail. Both sides understood that the war had changed suddenly and dramatically in those few days.Both sides claimed victory. We rarely see images of Armies in full retreat. only a couple bottles of blue pills which you need, Joe Lee Galloway I had read Ernie Pyles columns and his collected work and I thought if a war comes Later I realized that I had shot a photo, in the heat of battle, of my childhood friend from the little town of Refugio, Texas. anything to give him and he just told me to just keep giving him the saline solution. In just over one month, 305 American dead had been added to the toll from the Ia Drang fight alone. He co-authored the book We Were Soldiers Once And Young with Hal Moore. Subj: RE: Galloway never wore a uniform either Joe Lee Galloways true fillings, on Vietnam Veteranstroops PTSD! Leroy went from France to Vietnam in 1966 at the age of 21, with a single camera, no assignments and $150 in her pocket; she would stay until 1968. Armed with an M16 that he personally took to Vietnam, Joe Lee Galloway. We arent allowed to forget; we arent supposed to forget. Communist casualties and desertions can be expected to go up if my recommendations for increased U.S., South Vietnamese and third country forces are accepted. JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY ( Rambo The Reporter ) IS NOW SELLING HIS COMBAT PICTURES FROM LANDING ZONE X-RAY. He worked more than 20 years as a foreign and war correspondent. When do you think you first encountered someone with PTSD? And a UH-1 "Huey" helicopter is flying in toward the area. Bruce Crandall Medal of Honor winner committed crimes in Vietnam!! Excerpts from Memorandum From Secretary of Defense McNamara to President Johnson, Washington, November 30, 1965. Bestselling author and war correspondent Joe Galloway passed away last week at the age . I had given all of my food away so I didnt eat for two days. A kid headed out for R&R and a floor stacked with KIAs [killed in action]. the Ia Drang Valley. (09/18/1947 - 12/04/1981). This image perfectly shows the seductive and corrupting influence of consumerism on the innocent civilians of Vietnam. The next time I saw Vince was on that terrible bloody ground in the la Drang. ======================= She managed to get accredited by the Associated Press, covered numerous battles, was seriously wounded by shrapnel that would remain in her body, parachuted into combat (small and thin, she was weighed down so as not to be blown away), was taken prisoner by the North Vietnamese (which she used as an opportunity to produce a cover story for LIFE Magazine), and remained obsessed by the war until her death in 2006. Fort Benning during battles in the Ia Drang (Guest blog). He is the only civilian to receive a combat medal form the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. I was so eager to get to Vietnam before the war ended that my only real fear was that the first. In other words, every year reaching out far into the future there were more babies born in the north than NVA we were killing in the south, so each year a new crop of draftees arrived as replacements for the dead. ============================= Its obvious looking at this photograph that he had unfettered access to LBJ and that everyone was comfortable with him being in the room even when the room was the Presidents bedroom. Think of the War in Vietnam and the image in your mind is likely one that was first captured on film, and then in the public imagination. Joe GallowayUPI/Getty Images I snapped this photo at [the Battle of la Drang], LZ X-Ray, on Nov. 15, 1965. 3. Paul SchutzerThe Life Picture Collection/Getty Images. A new PAVN regiment, the 66th, was just arriving in the Ia Drang in early November when its troops walked into perhaps the most audacious ambush of the Vietnam War. Find the perfect battle of ia drang stock photo, image, vector, illustration or 360 image. However, we noted with more than a little trepidation that none of them were budging from their holes as Dao led us down the dusty street. War Correspondent, Vietnam, Joe Galloway speaks during the 'Vietnam in HD' panel during the History portion of the 2011 Summer TCA Tour at the. Released prisoner of war Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm is greeted by his family at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Calif. Sal VederAP. Knowles denied Stockton permission, and the legendary 9th Cavalry commander squawked, squealed, whistled, dropped the radio handset and waved Danielsens men aboard the choppers and away to save the day. Slapping a swagger stick along his leg, he quickly loaded the two journalists who had accepted his invitation, myself and UPI reporter Leon Daniel, into a Jeep and barreled into the town. General Giap also learned one very important lesson. (Paperback 9780345475817) A photo of a young widow sprawled atop the grave of her soldier husband at Arlington Cemetery leaves me choked with grief and sobbing aloud. CREATIVE. Despite these numbers, senior American officials in Saigon declared the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley a great victory. Over the years, Howard would often tell this story and recall sadly that Capa had died covering his assignment. Sidney Lanier High School, Sp4 James Clark was not given any morphine by the medics. Soldiers and journalists alike are reluctant to seek treatment, and for the same reason: A fear that it is a confession of fear, and may damage your career. In the fairly rendered background a soldier, probably wounded, is seen surrounded by comrades who, somehow, form an awkward Piet. The four days of fighting formed what became the first major battle between U.S. and North Vietnamese forces of the Vietnam War. The wise men talked for two days without seriously considering McNamaras Option 1getting out of Vietnamand ultimately voted unanimously in favor of further escalation of the war. along in my generation., Joe Lee Galloway I want to cover it. My father, Larry Burrows, selected that frame himself, but it wasnt until more than four years later, after he was shot down and killed, that it was published for the first time. is shown front and center, resting on the ground in the soft gray light like a discarded soup bowl or a cleaved skull. During the time I spent with him and his platoon they didnt come into direct contact with the enemy, but there was always a common undercurrent that ran through them, a palpable anxiety and fear about what could come their way in a split second. It was followed by a barrage of incoming automatic weapon and artillery rounds. In no year of that long war did the North Vietnamese war death toll even come close to equaling the natural birth rate increase of the population. The child was found wandering the previous night between the North Vietnamese and the American firing lines. However, the American GIs often showed compassion toward the Viet Cong. In 1981, working with his co-author, Joe Galloway, he turned his attention to the research that underpinned their 1992 New York Times Bestselling book on the Ia Drang battles, We Were Soldiers Once and Young. Giap would later say: We thought that the Americans must have a strategy. He came running towards my foxhole with, his clothes on fire. A third had escaped. Although they could have easily crushed the defendersa 12-man American A-Team and 100 Montagnard mercenary tribesmenthe enemy dangled them as bait, hoping to lure a relief force of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) out of Pleiku and into an ambush laid by their brothers of the 33rd Regiment. Nov. 14-18, 1965< this would be LZ X-Ray's battle, Robert Saucedo should have been leaving the war. Do you have an observations about why that might be so? Katherine Holden, daughter of photographer Philip Jones Griffiths: This picture was taken by my father, Philip Jones Griffiths, in Vietnam in 1968 during the battle for Saigon. The captives were young children and old women and one woman is nursing her baby. But for that fraction of a second, in his face, his posture, was all the fatigue and despair of a young soldier who is surely wondering what in the hell hes doing there, so far from home. Word spread quickly that a battalion of Americans had been massacred in the Ia Drang Valley, but reporters were told there was no ambush. Hal G. Moore, Bruce Crandall and Jon Mills went in to an officers bar, they were told to leave by, Hal G. Moore was wearing his web gear, grenades,ammo, M-16 rifle, Bruce Crandall and Jon, Hal G. Moore laying his M-16 on the bar, tells the manager if he did not serve them he would, Bruce Crandall and Jon mills, take their pistols out of their holsters, and place them on the, This by this act alone Bruce Crandall and Jon mills, by taking their pistols out of their holsters, (a) Any person subject to this chapter who attempts or offers with unlawful force or violence to, do bodily harm to another person, whether or not the attempt or offer is consummated, is. A photo of Rescorla as a grizzled lieutenant in Vietnam, moving forward with bayonet fixed during the horrific 1965 battle of Ia Drang in Vietnam, became one of the iconic images of the war. He was instantly suspicious. Lt. General Hal Moore: Thank you Joe. As long as even one of us remembers them our friends are not dead. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam at the best online prices at eBay! I was very young. With Karen Spears Zacharias In a message dated 1/15/2004 3:23:36 PM Pacific Standard Time, My heart was pounding. McDade and his command group went forward so the battalion commander could personally put questions to the prisoners through the interpreter. -- Photo by Peter Arnett for The Associated Press. In 1998, Galloway was awarded the Bronze Star with V for Valor for rescuing wounded soldiers under fire at Ia Drang. russell: (Photo Credit: Joe Galloway / Bettmann / Getty Images) On the second day of fighting, he even went out into the heavy fire to rescue a soldier, Pfc. . In time the same patience and perseverance that had ground down the French colonial military would likewise grind down the Americans. development Air Assault tactics, or Helicopters. Without them, the battles of the Ia Drang could never have taken place. By Joe Lee Galloway. Later I noticed that with the arrival of fall each year, November to be precise, I went just a bit crazy. A Mars bar was a very special thing indeed. Available for both RF and RM licensing. They want very much to kill Americans but have not been able to find any.. They were replaced by new draftees, who flowed in as individual replacements and who knew no one around them, and nothing of their outfits history and esprit. They were about to make history, conducting the first nighttime heli-borne infantry assault into a very hot landing zone. 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. I arrived from Miami on the press plane that accompanied the candidate. Suddenly, a mortar shell landed in the dust no more than 10 feet from us. The North Vietnamese swiftly deployed along the left side of the column and prepared to attack. ART. The soldiers were very sympathetic to the civilians and one medic befriended them. to: lzalbany65 His cheerful attitude,tireless applications and devotion to duty were directly responsible for the successful. Knowlen sent out three platoon-sized ambush patrols. Still images rarely give straightforward answers but they do offer illuminating clues for those who take the time to delve into them. The other is to stick with our stated objectives and with the war, and provide what it takes in men and materiel. Long-forgotten photographs sometimes leap out at me and I am stunned by certain moments that I documented that were so routine when I made them, but are now infused with new emotion and meaning. In 1954 a French unit on patrol during the First Indochina War is ambushed by Viet Minh forces . Mostly, I remember carrying a badly wounded grunt whose leg came off and he almost bled out. ++"They ran to our foxholes. In November 1965, journalist Joseph L. Galloway hitched a ride on an Army helicopter flying to the Ia Drang Valley, a rugged landscape of red dirt, brown elephant grass and truck-size termite mounds in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam. Yoichi OkamotoLBJ Library. The rate of infiltration has increased from three battalion equivalents a month in late 1964 to a high of 9 or 12 during one month this past fall. Prior to Nov. 14, 1965, the U.S. Army had never met its North Vietnamese counterpart in a major battle. The 1st Cavalrys big Chinook helicopters lifted batteries of 105mm howitzers, leap-frogging along within range of the dirt road that led to Plei Me. Do you think Gold Star family members can suffer from PTSD even though they have never been in a combat zone? An artillery liaison officer in a Huey overhead wanted desperately to call fire missions in support, but was helpless. We Were Soldiers, 2002. This photo shows two soldiers watching an area with enemy presence and keeping a low profile. I thought I was bulletproof, invincible, as young men often do before they see the elephant. Keywords : George Forrest Vietnam Ia Drang Valley LZ Albany ambush Ghost 4-6 Fred Kluge medic Daniel Torres .45 pistol M-60 machine gun Medal Of Honor (MOH) survivor's guilt Hal Moore Shorty Rogers Joe Galloway But nearly until the end of the U.S. war, if a helicopter or truck had a seat available, they would take you along. General Giap knew all along that his country and his army would prevail against the Americans just as they had outlasted and worn down their French enemy. Alice Gabriner, who edited this photo essay, is TIMEs International Photo Editor. I got three frames off, and the moment was gone. The Americans blew their claymore mines and emptied a magazine each from their M-16 rifles into the confused North Vietnamese and then took off, running like hell straight back to the patrol base. It was the morning. A very angry PAVN battalion was right behind them. We were glad to get it over with. Then, said An, the fight would be man-to-man and much better odds. I distinctly remember family talking about a returned soldier who came home damaged mentally.. (Joe Gromelski/Stars and Stripes) Buy Photo. I know better now. My Dad and all my uncles would not tell us kids war stories. Paul received many letters saying thank you for what you showed us.. As the primary General Staff action Officer for the Armys Airborne Research and Development program, his aggressive, intelligent efforts, mature judgment , keen perception resulted in a comprehensive, and, effective Research and Development program.His thoroughness and initiative, together with a detailed, grasp of the complex inter-Agency and inter-Service coordinations required for the formulation of completed, airborne projects, resulted in a continued improvement in the field Armies airborne capability and the. The dramatic recent changes in the situation are on the military side. The UH-1B Huey helicopters buzzed around the rugged area like so many bees, landing American troops among the North Vietnamese, forcing them to split up into ever-smaller groups like coveys of quail pressed hard by the hunters. Jimmy D. Nakayama's casualty report no crushed ankles! I didnt think of Capa when I pressed the shutter, but I believe both images share an emotional impact because they involve children. As long as even one of us remembers them our friends are not dead. I think that term did not come into being until sometime after 1968. JG. America was losing the war at home; David was defeating Goliath. What they saw was a ratio of 12 North Vietnamese killed for each American. Just as he pulled it I came up fighting for my life, and threw my wife out of bed and against the wall of our apartment. Shaking it at the defense secretary, he said, You mean to tell me no matter what I do I cant win in Vietnam? 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