April 13 -- I stand corrected. Two Sundays ago, I noted that America's wars often begin with difficulties. I cited the debacle at Bull Run in July 1861, and the Army's unsteady performance in North ...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — Friday morning a, wearing a Harris County ball cap, stood out at a reunion of soldiers who fought in the famed 1965 Vietnam battle in the Ia Drang valley. Jamie Creed didn’t ...

War made them brothers. A movie made them famous. But the Battle of Ia Drang Valley made them legends. The brave men of the 1st Battalion, 7th Calvary reunited aboard the USS Yorktown Friday, April 17 ...

FORT HOOD, Texas -- Joe Galloway, co-author of the New York Times Best Sellers, We Were Soldiers Once... and Young (1992), and We are Still Soldiers... A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam ...

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 year ...

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A half-century ago, two Peorians were thrust into up-front views of a Vietnam battle that unexpectedly and savagely changed history and shook the globe. The Battle of Ia Drang, later famously ...

Bruce Crandall said the small-arms fire whipping out of the Vietnamese jungle toward his Huey helicopter sounded like bursting popcorn kernels. “When you’re in the air, it had more of a ...

In the summer of 1965, stationed at Fort Sill, Okla., I volunteered for an artillery battalion being formed to join the 1st Air Cavalry Division in Vietnam and became the forward observer for A ...

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