Battle of Ia Drang

The first major battle between the soldiers of the United States Army and the troops from the People’s Army of Vietnam was the Battle of Ia Drang. This particular battle, held between November 14 and November 18, 1965, was especially significant because it included a wide arrow of strategic guerrilla warfare tactics all the way to using air support to an advantage. The 4-day battle deepened the United States’ involvement with South Vietnam against the North Vietnamese forces. North Vietnam showed that they were ready to fight the United States and demonstrated the ability to adapt to the tactics used by their adversaries. However, in the Battle of Ia Drang, the American force proved to have superior tactics over the Vietnamese using air mobility, artillery fire, and air support which led to an overall U.S. victory in the Vietnam War. Considering that The Battle of Ia Drang was the first battle of the Vietnam war, it is important to explain why the war started in the first place. Many factors derived from the symptoms and results of the Cold War. Before World War II, Vietnam had been a part of the French nation. However during the war, the French lost possession of Vietnam as it was overrun by the Japanese. Eventually, the Japanese retreated and the people of Vietnam began to build up their own government system…

We Were Soldiers One… And Young is a thrilling novel the recounts the First and Second Battalions of 7th Cavalry Regimen during the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley. The events in the book are told by Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore the commander of the battalion and Joseph L. Galloway a war journalist. Moore is in charge of two battalions that are some of the first to incorporate helicopters into their tactics. They go into Vietnam under manned due to expiring enlistments; they had to fight a true…

The Battle of LA Drang began in November 1965 when 450 men of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry were dropped by helicopter into a small clearing in the Ia Drang Valley, South Vietnam. Suddenly that dropped turned into a war zone. There was 4,000 North Vietnamese soldiers, surrounding them that was no clear landing zone for them to escape. Moore had to think quickly and fight back in order to keep himself and his battalion alive. Luckily, Moore read a lot and before going to Vietnam, he knew about…

Careful analysis of Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried” and Harold Moore’s and Joseph Galloway’s “We Were Soldiers Once… And Young” reveals two markedly different portrayals of the United States’ army during the Vietnam War. This change mirrors the dwindling optimism of the American people from Moore and Galloway’s account of the 1965 Battle of la Drang and O’Brien’s more comprehensive account of the later stages of the war and post-war period. While O’Brien, Moore, and Galloway all served…

Col. Moore was that his battle position was being overrun. Him and his men were ambushed and were getting overrun by all perimeters. He then noticed that they weren’t going to leave out of their alive with just using their rifles and machine guns. So he called in “Broken Arrow” which is a distressed signal and was used to call in every available air support to help a unit that was being overrun. He called this in on Day 2 on November 15th. He and his men witnessed napalm spreading all around…

7 Orobosa Omede Professor Epstein History 340-01 Paper 2 The Vietnam War: The battle of The Ia Drang Valley Orobosa Omede Professor Epstein History 340-01 Paper 2 The battle on Ia Drang Valley sets the foundation leading to numerous conflicts of American involvement in the Vietnam War. The engagement between American and North Vietnamese troops were significant in that it persisted even after the American troops withdrew from Vietnam. The…

We Were Soldiers Once… And Young We Were: Ia Drang - The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam is a 1992 book written by Lt. Gen Harold G. Moore and war journalist Joseph L. Galloway about the Vietnam War. It is concentrated on the specific role of the First and Second Battalions of the 7th Cavalry Regiment in the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley, which was the United States' first large-unit battle of the Vietnam War. Through vivid imagery, Moore and Gallery provide description of the battle.…

The Marine Corps also found extensive use for the helicopter. After establishing a forward operating base at Soc Trang in the Mekong Delta early in 1962, the Marine Corps helicopters were put to work almost immediately moving South Vietnamese soldiers into battle positions (Camp, 2013). As the war progressed, the Marine’s ability to use the helicopter expanded. Beginning the war with the ancient H-34 piston powered medium lift helicopter, the Marine Corps were eventually fielded newer CH-46 Sea…

the tactical advantage by seeing the battle from above and directing helicopters, filled with troops, to drop mass amounts of Soldiers at specified locations. If reinforcements were required in a certain location, they were flown in and dropped as opposed to holding a location for days on end until reinforcements could march in. With this advantage, the US forces had the ability to not only transport troops into battles, they could also transport artillery, and mortar teams, and insert these…

In Vietnam, the country was temporarily divided into North and South, called the 17th parallel, where civilians could move freely between two states. Two years later elections were held to make a unified government. The U.S. government did not like this because the elections might not be fair and if the Communist won the Vietnam war, Communism could spread and it could be a bigger threat to U.S. Basically the Vietnam War started because of Communism. In 1950, the Indochina War begins. Also,…