Somebody grabbed him under his arms and dragged him toward the trees, but dropped him in the clearing where air support was dropping napalm. Don Cornett had a wife and a son, a mother and a father and two sisters. You need a Find a Grave account to continue. Pujals recently closed his law practice. That headquarters type turned up and he returned my old helmet, bullet hole and all. Box 159 Many did a second tour and others left the service and returned home to their families. He had just turned thirty-six years old. His hands were burned in the escape from the wreckage, and it was doubted that he would ever fly again. On February 26, 2007, President George W. Bush presented Crandall with the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Ia Drang Valley. Spec. LZ Albany is essentially two clearings with a large copse of trees in the middle. For a number of years he was a country-and-western band leader and disc jockey. She received both her bachelor of arts degree in history, and her master of arts degree in history from Western University. He tried to crawl away and was shot again in the hip. The problem was it had to be applied by a country that was much more willing for it to be applied for the long haul. He died . Parish now runs the Bristow, Oklahoma, toll gate on the Turner Turnpike. I ripped off his shirt and there it was: a groove to the right of his spine. The 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment went toward LZ Columbus, while the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment traveled to LZ Albany, capturing two NVA soldiers on the way. I had been assuming that he would get us out of this. Please contact Find a Grave at [emailprotected] if you need help resetting your password. Sign up to receive a daily email of today's top military news stories from Stars and Stripes and top news outlets A Chicago native, Doc Carrara returned home, changed his specialty to pathology. Alpha Company arrived in Vietnam with 146 officers and men. 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. After the Ia Drang campaign, Hastings was badly burned when the O-1E Bird Dog spotter plane he was piloting was shot down over the Mang Yang Pass and crash-landed in the old French Group Mobile 100 cemetery beside Route 19 on Christmas Eve 1965. It featured a question-and-answer session with some of the battle's key players, including retired Lt. Gen. Hal Moore. I believe it is so I can share our story.". He is president of the Army Relief Fund and a trustee of the Association of Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy. Rate the pronunciation difficulty of Ia Drang. USA, Scranton, 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.. We Were Soldiers is based on the novel, We Were Soldiers Once and Young: Ia Drang The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam, by renowned war correspondent Joe Galloway and Lt. Gen. Hal Moore. Companies C and D took the brunt of the Communist attack, and most of the men were quickly hit. He spent thirty-two months in the hospital recovering from the wounds he suffered in LZ X-Ray. She is an active member of Sons and Daughters in Touch, an organization sponsored by the Friends of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. "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.'". Charlie Company held their position, exemplifying extraordinary heroism and courage. He checked in with the nearest Veterans Administration hospital; they sent him home, telling him they would call him back for an operation to place a plate over the hole. Returning home, he single-handedly raised his two young children while earning two masters degrees. That is the theme of Lawrence's book and of his talks. BROWN, Thomas W. (Tim), seventy-three, the 3rd Brigade commander in the Ia Drang, retired a brigadier general in 1973, after thirty-plus years of service and a second tour in Vietnam, with two Silver Stars and two Bronze Stars from his three wars. He single-handedly raised five young children and earned a doctorate, retiring a lieutenant colonel after twenty years service. Crandall won the first Helicopter Heroism Award of the Aviation/Space Writers Association, for two daring nighttime landings under fire to rescue twelve badly wounded troopers from Captain Tony Nadals Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Cav in Operation Masher-White Wing in January 1966. They are representative of the more than three million Americans who served the United States of America in its long and bitter war in Vietnam, representative of those who loved one of the more than 58,000 Americans who died in that war. His last known address was Miami, Florida. Battle of Ia Drang Valley Survivors These men survived the fighting in the Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam from Oct 23, 1965 to Nov 1965. "I'm just as guilty. For the last twenty-one years he has been in the tire business. ), provided the authors with a copy of Diduryks journal and maps for this book. He now lives in Stamford, Connecticut. He is the perennial master of ceremonies at the Ia Drang dinners; he claims he is the only one of the brothers who can get through an entire sentence without using the f-word. North Vietnamese forces had higher casualty rates, due to the U.S. airstrike and artillery support. JEANETTE, Robert J., fifty, Ghost 4-6, weapons-platoon leader, Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cav in the Ia Drang, lives in Monsey, New York, a suburb of New York City. The XO was going fast. He works for a consulting firm in McLean, Virginia. MARTIN, John C., fifty-one, rifleman in Lieutenant Sissons platoon detached from Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry for duty in X-Ray, served a second combat tour in Vietnam. Since then he has taught industrial arts, electronics, and mathematics, has flown for the U.S. Forest Service, and for a time was a crop duster pilot. Lawrence's story is one that he has told so often to so many people that it is fluid and impactful without being rehearsed. Baker, who was less than a foot away from me, was screaming that I was in charge and that I had to do something," he said. She also worked as a teaching assistant in the History Department. 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. Mrs. Mapson is a member of the Columbus chapter of the 1st Cavalry Division Association. Westmoreland, a veteran of World War II in Europe, declared Ia Drang a victory because the North Vietnamese were driven from the field after suffering major casualties. He now manages the quartermaster laundry at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and lives in Clarksville, Tennessee. While Beck survived the ultimately victorious 2-1/2-day fight at Ia Drang, 305 other American soldiers did not. He is married and has two children. I couldnt grasp it., More from us: Val Kilmer Accidentally Landed Matthew Modine the Starring Role in Full Metal Jacket. Freeman won a battlefield commission in the Korean War. Moore and his 450-man 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, flew into Landing Zone X-Ray at the base of the Chu Pong Mountain west of Plei Me and miles from the Cambodian border. The single, bloodiest day in the Vietnam War. He retired a colonel in 1983. 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. God rest you, George. Learn more about featured topics of the Vietnam War and Vietnam Era. Although survivors had been trickling in during the morning they thought the 2/7th had been annihilated in the fighting at Albany. He retired a command sergeant major and lives in Columbus, Georgia. This battle took place from 11-14-1965, thru 11-18-1965. Advisory Group, Pleiku. For the next ten years he was a football coach at Morgan State University in Baltimore, his alma mater. I ask that question every day. "The XO let out a low moan, and his head sank. SCOTT, James A., sixty-nine, the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalrys sergeant major, served a second Vietnam tour in 1970-71 as command sergeant major, USARV Scott retired as a command sergeant major on May 1, 1973, after thirty years, ten months, and twenty days of service, wearing the Combat Infantrymans Badge with one star; six Bronze Stars; three Purple Hearts; a European Campaign ribbon with four battle stars and one invasion arrow; a Korean Service ribbon with two battle stars; a Vietnam Service ribbon with four battle stars; and the Presidential Unit Citation badge. A fresh unit, the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry, was ordered to march from LZ X-Ray to LZ Albany a few miles away. He retired a colonel in 1981, and is vice president of human resources for a large corporation in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The service members killed in the Battle of la Drang are remembered on Panel 3E of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. He married in 1981 and is the father of four daughters: an eight-year-old, a five-year-old, and infant twins. ROBINSON, Edward Charles, fifty-five, Huey pilot at LZ X-Ray, served a second combat tour in Vietnam. They were interrogated by McDade, who, along with most of the commanding officers and radio operators, were called into a meeting to discuss the intel. I felt a flash of panic. 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 Battle of Ia Drang was the first major battle of Vietnam fought on the dates of November 14-18, 1965. The only question was which side could outlast the other. Through good fortune, the enemy's ignorance of their predicament, Specialist Lose's first-aid knowledge . We have set your language to Moore and his battalion were evacuated the next day, Nov. 17. 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 is married and has a daughter in college and a son in the U.S. Marines. These additional troops pushed back the enemy, allowing the others to evacuate the wounded. But UPI sent him back to Vietnam in 1971, in 1973, and again in 1975 for the final chapter. DIDURYK, Myron F., commander of Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cav in LZ X-Ray and LZ Albany, completed his tour in Vietnam with Bravo Company in 1966, and later returned to Vietnam and the 1st Air Cavalry Division as a major. 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. 2 Ia Drang also served as a test for the U.S. military of its new air mobility tactics. He co-authored the book We Were Soldiers Once And Young with Hal Moore. The battalion commander had ordered his command helicopter to land and check out a North Vietnamese soldier killed by the door gunner. It had been a small undeclared war mainly fought by South Vietnamese troops with a few U.S. advisers in the mix, sometimes on the ground, sometimes in helicopters, said Andrew Wiest, a history professor at the University of Southern Mississippi and the founding director of its Dale Center for the Study of War and Society. They never did. I still have my leg, and I can walk on it. Crandall kept his helicopter on the ground in the line of enemy fire, so that four wounded soldiers could be loaded aboard. 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. At 4:00 AM this morning, Command Sergeant Major Basil L. Plumley of the U.S. Army's 1 st Battalion, 7 th Cavalry Regiment, died. McNamara told Johnson that the U.S. could continue with its limited engagement or massively escalate the war with hundreds of thousands more troops. Contrary to popular belief, the Battle of Ia Drang started and ended after the famous landings at LZ X-Ray and LZ Albany. CRANDALL, Bruce, fifty-nine, who commanded the helicopters in the Ia Drang Valley, returned to Vietnam for a second tour in 1967. I've also included soldiers who survived and died later and the wife of the commander of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, Julia Moore for her role in supporting the grieving widows of the men slain. Unknown to them at the time, they were surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese troops. Terms of Use | It was the first major combat action between U.S. ground forces and the North Vietnamese Army. November 14, 1965 marked a pivotal moment in U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Mindful of the effects of propaganda, each side declared victory. 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. The Battle of Ia Drang Still Matters - War Is Boring. Becoming a Find a Grave member is fast, easy and FREE. Crandall and Freeman successfully rescued some 70 wounded men. The men, women, and children of this story are Americas neighbors, living quiet lives in every corner of the nation they served. KEETON, James, fifty-nine, battalion aid station medic, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, served a second tour in Vietnam with an adviser group. MCDONALD, George J., fifty-two, mortarman, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, left the Army in 1966 and went home to Pass Christian, Mississippi, where he is a commercial fisherman. In his spare time Wal-lenius draws, paints, and does etchings and prints, sometimes of Vietnam War scenes. LARSEN, Stanley R. (Swede), seventy-seven, commanding general, II Field Force Vietnam, retired a lieutenant general in 1972 and for seven years was president of a large company in San Francisco. 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. Fought between November 14th and 18th of 1965, around the hills surrounding the valley of Ia Drang, on the Central Highlands of South Vietnam. KINNARD, Harry W. O., seventy-seven, former commanding general of the 1st Cavalry Division, retired from the Army as a lieutenant general in 1969. One of the survivors recalls how it was - the blood, the agony, and the fear. 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. It was his first real combat; first, he got a round to the side of his neck. He now lives in Dublin, New Hampshire, and works for a firm that sells office supplies. He asked for a volunteer to go with him and Captain Ed Freeman agreed to pursue it with him, displaying extraordinary heroism. Adams and his wife have a three-year-old daughter. James T. Lawrence, a first lieutenant in the Battle of Ia Drang Valley, learned a lesson in leadership the hard way 50 years ago. But Westmoreland believed the battle validated the airmobile tactic of quick strikes to catch the enemy off guard, kill as many as possible and withdraw back to base. He and his wife, Kathie, live on a seventy-acre ranch near Aspen, Colorado, where he owns and operates an outfitting company for fishing and boating trips. 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.". The Ia Drang Valley is where the U.S. truly went to war. The 430 troops of the 1st Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division loaded into helicopters and were dropped into the Ia Drang valley. In four days and nights of fighting. Of Mrs. Mapsons five brothers, three served in the Army, one made a career in the Air Force, and one is a lawyer. In 1946, Ho Chi Minh had warned the French, who were trying to restore control over their former protectorate, that you can kill 10 of my men for every one I kill of yours, yet even at those odds, you will lose and I will win.. Galen Bungum, left, and Joe F. Mackey, two of the unhurt survivors of Lt. Henry Herrick's Lost Platoon. He was evacuated, via Clark Field, to Fitzsimmons Army Hospital in Denver. It was the longest day I ever experienced in any aircraft, Crandall recalled. American officials declared the Battle of the la Drang Valley a victory. The Huey was the best helicopter ever made. 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. The largely [North Vietnamese Army] units we ran into, they were interested in staying and fighting.. Of the 500 men present as part of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 155 lost their lives, and just 84 were immediately able to return to active duty. He and his wife, Arlene, have three sonsa banker in Sao Paulo, Brazil; a lawyer in Connecticut; and a divinity student in college. In his spare time he camps, climbs, skis, and fishes for trout in the Rockies. KNOWLES, Richard, seventy-five, assistant division commander of the 1st Cavalry Division, served a second consecutive tour in Vietnam, commanded the 196th Light Infantry Brigade, and then was commanding general of Task Force Oregon (precursor to the American Division). Vince Cantu never went back to his music. He and his wife live in Alexandria, Virginia. Your new password must contain one or more uppercase and lowercase letters, and one or more numbers or special characters. If you yield to it, it will absolutely paralyze you. He retired from the Army as a master sergeant and, in 1988, became the pastor of a church in Fort Mitchell, Alabama. Read More It wasnt until Albany was back in American hands that the engagement officially drew to a close. Yesteryears: For survivors, Battle of the Ia Drang Valley changed everything. . Moore, who says he graduated from West Point by the skin of my teeth, was the first Army officer of his class (1945) to achieve one-, two-, and three-star rank. 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. He retired as a lieutenant colonel in 1985; on November 26, 1987, he was killed in the crash of a private plane in Bakersfield, California. For him, war is something that will always be a necessity as long as there is evil in the world, but it is something that is not to be glorified or desired. Together, we can make sure our heroes will get the reverence they deserve and the stories and sacrifices of our heroes will never be forgotten. "Why did I deserve to live? 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. Shocked and wounded U.S. troops gather at a jungle clearing of South Vietnam's Ia Drang Valley in mid-November 1965, as they wait for an ambulance helicopter. Lt. Col. Harold G. Moore, a no-nonsense West Pointer, was the commander of the . The North Vietnamese forces had succeeded in engaging the U.S. forces in very tight quarters. Her mother, who never remarried, died in 1986. I fought for this country and now I own and farm 120 acres of my country. Since August 1990, he has been the dean of students and basketball coach at St. Mary Rynken Catholic High School in Leonardtown, Maryland, his hometown. Successful in their mission, the Americans travel back to their landing zone to be taken back to base. MOORE, H. G. (Hal), now seventy, commanded the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry in the Ia Drang and served six more months in Vietnam, commanding the 3rd Brigade. Photo Credit: Wikipedia; Henry Toro Herrick was red-haired, five foot ten, twenty-four years old, and the son of an astronomy professor at UCLA. Photo extracted from U.S. Army motion picture footage from November 1965. "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. He is brutally honest, even with his actions as a leader. The fighting continued for three hours. Although the fighting had ended, the Battle of Ia Drang didnt officially conclude until the next day, as it took two days to collect the bodies. Knowles retired from the Army in 1974 as a lieutenant general. He still grows soybeans and corn on the farm in his spare time. After Vietnam, Hazen maintained a correspondence with the mother of the young lieutenant who died in his arms. Karen works part-time as a freelance designer and helps with her husbands construction and contracting business. 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. Of the 500 men, 150 were killed and only 84 were able to return to immediate duty. Sources 1st Cavalry Division Association: 1st Cavalry Division Medal of Honor Recipients. Fesmire is a colonel assigned as the Army attache to the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina. 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. MARM, Walter J. One infantry company began the day of Nov. 14 with 110 men. Please check your email and click on the link to activate your account. 4 Oscar E . In 2016, he joined a panel of Ia Drang survivors at the Maneuver Center of Excellence, Fort Benning, Ga., to share their experiences with both young and seasoned officers and noncommissioned officers. JEKEL, Alex (Pop), seventy, Huey pilot in X-Ray and Albany, retired in the late 1960s as a chief warrant officer-4. Being the firstbig units there, we had to make our own camp, no showers for months, World War II C rations to eat, no toilets, just a hole dug in the ground, etc. The bulk of the fighting lasted about 6 hours and in that time 2/7 Cav lost 155 killed and 124 wounded. He is now a financial officer with the U.S. Battle of Ia Drang American troops in the Ia Drang Valley, November 1965. With only 700 effective soldiers left of the original 2,200, the 33d Regiment needed help. Omaha, I guess I was an oddball; everyone else that year was going into teaching to avoid the draft, and then there was me. Jeanette and his wife, Sandra, were married five days before he shipped out for Vietnam. 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. 1965, just after the start of the U.S. campaign that led to the Ia Drang Valley. Between the Army and the Interior Department, Freeman logged a total of seventeen thousand hours flying time in helicopters and eight thousand hours in fixed wing. The Air Mobile Division was a new concept. Although each survivor's story is unique, they all carry the same lessons. He and his wife live in Lake Forest, Illinois. based on information from your browser. "To do it you've got to get up. 5 cemeteries found within miles of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. "I always end my talk with telling my audience 'When people go to the wall [Vietnam Veterans Memorial], they see 58,000 names. In Hanoi, the North Vietnamese leadership was prepared for huge losses. The central highlands had few roads and challenging terrain, making air mobility the only viable mode of transportation. For the Ia Drang Valley survivors, October 10, 2012 will be a day they will remember for the rest of their days. He retired a lieutenant colonel in 1977, and lives with his wife in Arlington, Texas. FESMIRE, John A. DEAL, Dennis, fifty, platoon leader, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Cav in the Ia Drang, left the Army as a captain in 1968 and returned to his native Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. To use this feature, use a newer browser. 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