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	Battle of Hamburger Hill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Hamburger Hill was one of the most controversial battles of the Vietnam War.
		The battle on Hill 937 occurred during Operation Apache Snow, the second part of a three-phased campaign intended to destroy People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) Base Areas in the remote A Shau Valley.
		During the course of the battle the foliage was eventually stripped away and the bunkers exposed, but they were so numerous and well constructed that many could not be reduced by indirect fire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Hamburger_Hill (2609 words)

	Hamburger Hill Revisited-101st Airborne Division battle - Military Photos
		Hamburger Hill proved to be the telling battle of the Vietnam War, as Pork Chop Hill was for the Korean War.
		Officially Hill 255 (from its elevation in yards), it was dubbed Pork Chop Hill because of its geographic shape.
		In the earlier November 1967 battle of Dak To in the Central Highlands, 289 U.S. soldiers were killed in action and an estimated 1,644 NVA soldiers also perished, victims of the 170,000 rounds of artillery, the 2,100 tactical airstrikes and the 228 Boeing B-52 sorties that supported the operation.
	www.militaryphotos.net /forums/showthread.php?t=18836 (3443 words)

	Hamburger Hill
		The initial attacks were repulsed by entrenched NVA forces and the action became a battle of attrition between opposing infantry forces.
		The battle had occurred only because NVA forces had elected to stand and fight where the terrain was to their advantage; once the US committed large forces, the NVA forces withdrew across the Laos border.
		A wounded U.S. paratrooper is rushed to safety during the fierce battle to wrest the strategically located peak from the hands of the Communist.
	www.angelfire.com /pa/hotshot478/HamburgerHill.html (430 words)

	Major Battles of the Vietnam War
		After this the tempo slowed, the battle became more of a siege, although there were further NVA assaults on the 17-18th and the 29th.
		General Weyland won the battle for Saigon at that meeting when he asked that the border offensive be postponed and certain units be returned to their positions in the populated areas.
		C Company had to fight up the hill and took fire from the southeast where, from a helicopter, he saw that the NVA were also in force in that direction.
	webpages.charter.net /wisconsinlegion-7thdistrict/VN_Battles.htm (16070 words)

	Hamburger Hill - DVD - Title H Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Hamburger Hill is the supposedly poor cousin of the two highly acclaimed Vietnam War films, Platoon and Full Metal Jacket.
		Hamburger Hill is directed by John Irvin and was released in 1987 and unlike the other two films is based around an actual battle that occurred during the war.
		The battle lasted for ten days and during that time the Americans were forced to use three battalions of soldiers to remove the Vietnamese presence from the hill.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /dvd-title-h/hamburger-hill (236 words)

	Hamburger Hill -- The Real Story
		By early 1969, it was becoming apparent to the MACV [Military Assistance Command Vietnam] and XXIV Corps staffs that A Shau Valley was once again an area of high NVA activity, logistically and strategically, and an important terminus for the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
		The 3/187th's battle for Dong Ngai and the discovery of mammoth supply depots in the area served to accentuate that point.
		The sound of artillery impacting on the hill, the ridges, and in the valleys and ravines was pleasing to the ear.
	www.historyinfilm.com /hamhill/real.htm (1348 words)

	Studies in Battle Command
		The battles, operations, and leaders discussed in the chapters that follow range over the historical landscape from Gustavus Adolphus in the seventeenth century to Hamburger Hill in Vietnam.
		Operationally, the battle was not decisive, however, because a large faction of the Indians under the leadership of Red Eagle continued to wage war throughout the territory.
		The battle was still in doubt when Bosquet, realizing that Prince Gorchakov's feeble attack was a mere feint, arrived with the majority of his force to bolster the sagging British defenders.
	www.au.af.mil /au/awc/awcgate/army/csi-battles.htm (21404 words)

	HAMBURGER HILL REVISITED
		Vietnam Journeys was contacted by Liz Mata, whose father Leonel Mata, fought at the battle of Hamburger Hill.
		I re-read those passages relating to her father and he was right in the thick of the battle.
		Since we were finding unexploded ordnance in the undergrowth at the top of Hamburger Hill and I can only assume these escape ravines could be even more dangerous and filled with ordnance as the arty was brought in on the fleeing NVA.
	home.earthlink.net /~gt3d/Page_Diary_RealAccounts.html (671 words)

	HAMBURGER HILL REVISITED
		The large mountain range to the north of Hamburger Hill called Dong So was nicknamed the "Warehouse Area" during the war because of the number of supply caves peppered throughout that mountain range.
		A Screaming Eagle veteran of the battle, Wayne Gaskins, has corresponded with me and was extremely generous to put his experiences of the battle onto paper.
		After the battle of Hamburger Hill, he had been in the valley during a B-52 strike and was seriously wounded in the head.
	home.earthlink.net /~gt3d/Page_Diary_HH.html (19723 words)

	Amazon.com: Hamburger Hill: Books: Samuel Zaffiri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The battle for Ap Bia Mountain (Hill 937), was one of the fiercest of the entire Vietnam War.
		Hamburger Hill is a great book that captures the agony of storming a fortified mountain for no apparent reason 10,000 miles from home.
		The battle itself was one of the biggest battles of the war, and still resonates with the public to this day.
	www.amazon.com /Hamburger-Hill-Samuel-Zaffiri/dp/0891417060 (2110 words)

	Vietnam War > Events > Hamburger Hill
		The ten-daybattle is one of the fiercest of the war.
		After 56 Americans are killedand 420 are wounded, the troops capture the hill and kill 597 Vietnamese.The hill is recorded in history as Hamburger Hill, and the actions thereare widely criticized in the US.
		The battle is one of the last major actionsof its type in the war.
	www.multied.com /vietnam/Hamburger.html (68 words)

	Hamburger Hill Home Page
		The film follows a fictional squad of soldiers in the 101st Airborne Division just before and during the battle for the hill.
		Although the soldiers in the film are fictional, the events and almost all of the individual actions shown during the battle really happened.
		The fighting for "Hamburger Hill", as it was nicknamed, was brutal and prolonged.
	www.historyinfilm.com /hamhill/index.htm (358 words)

	Amazon.com: Hamburger Hill: Video: Anthony Barrile,Michael Boatman,Don Cheadle,Michael Dolan,Don James,Dylan ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		From first scene to last, Hamburger Hill traces the rise and fall of their battle experience, from the horror of firefights to the camaraderie of men who've faced death and survived.
		Hamburger Hill depicts in gory detail the action that spanned 11 days (May 10-21, 1969) during which the 3rd Battalion of the 187th Airborne (3/187th, the "Rakkasans" of Korean fame) tried and finally succeeded in taking what was labeled on their maps as Hill 937 (meaning it was 937 meters high).
		Hill 937 was actually one of several ridges that comprised Dong Ap Bia on the Laotian border in the A Shau Valley.
	www.amazon.com /Hamburger-Hill-Anthony-Barrile/dp/6303239331 (2373 words)

	Jacket 27 - April 2005 - Susan M. Schultz: Most Beautiful Words: Linh Dinh’s Poetics of Disgust
		When I think about the Vietnam war, I remember Hamburger Hill, so called because American soldiers were ground up there in the late 1960s; the battle for Hamburger Hill was one I watched on television as a child.
		The American guide to Hamburger Hill was CBS newsman, Ed Bradley, best known these days for his recent interview of Michael Jackson.
		To think about Hamburger Hill not as a battle or as a place (which doubtless has another, Vietnamese, name), rather as the name for a battle, is to think about how language is often used in contemporary poetry to describe suffering.
	jacketmagazine.com /27/schu-linh.html (3098 words)

	Mad cow - Uncyclopedia
		There was one place where the evil American empire could be defeated and that was Vietnam, the home of Hamburger Hill.
		The Americans thought this would be an easy battle; just round up all the usual JFK Assassinator suspects, issue them flame throwers and McDonald's flags and have them return with enough well-done hamburger for a July 4th picnic.
		Under the leadership of Harvey's (who claimed to be able to make a hamburger a beautiful thing) and his purty American mail-order bride Wendy's, the few surviving American forces from the battle of Hamburger Hill began to build a new life north of 49°.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Mad_cow (376 words)

	TIME.com: THE BATTLE FOR HAMBURGER HILL -- May 30, 1969 -- Page 1
		It was a grisly but all too appropriate description, for the battle in and around Ap Bia took the lives of 84 G.I.s and wounded 480 more.
		But coming at this stage of the war and the peace talks, the battle for Hamburger Hill set off tremors of controversy that carried all the way to Capitol Hill.
		Estimating that a company of North Vietnamese occupied the hill (it turned out to be part of two regiments), Honeycutt sent his men up Ap Bia on May 12.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,840113,00.html (768 words)

	Hamburger Hill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For the Vietnam War battle see Battle of Hamburger Hill.
		The film realistically depicts the realities of war, combat, courage, camaraderie and dedication to the mission among troops.
		Other issues include the effect of anti-war sentiment on morale, and racial tensions among troops (especially the overcoming of racial tension by gradual friendship and earned respect).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hamburger_Hill (314 words)

	FOXNews.com - The Real Story of Hamburger Hill - Oliver North \| War Stories
		The locals called it "Dong Ap Bia" or "Mountain of the Crouching Beast," the Americans came to know it as Hamburger Hill.
		This unprecedented expedition will provide you an amazing understanding of what it is was like to do battle on this rain forest-covered mountain.
		Men like Frank Boccia, John Snyder and Ray Walker, all members of Bravo Company, 3rd Battalion, 187th Regiment of the famed "Screaming Eagles." On May 11, 1969, it was Bravo Company that first encountered the heavily armed and fortified positions of the North Vietnamese Army’s 29th Regiment.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,199167,00.html (515 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| Vietnam War
		Battle for Hamburger Hill During the Vietnam War
		Not all combat casualties appear on the battlefield, nor are all battle scars visible.
		Tells the story of the battle for Iwo Jima through the eyes of those who lived through it.
	www.historynet.com /wars_conflicts/vietnam_war (1236 words)

	drova
		Due to political pressures to keep American casualties low, the 101st was forced to withdraw from the battle, but not until they had suffered more casualties then they had on Hamburger Hill.
		Because of the uproar over the battle for Hamburger Hill during 1969, reporters were kept out of the Ripcord area.
		Each person who was located set out to find others, and eventually almost everyone who had survived the fighting for Hill 805 had been located, as well as several of the men who had served with Delta Company before and after that particular battle.
	www.blackied2501.com /drova.htm (492 words)

	FOXNews.com - War Stories Q & A: The Real Hamburger Hill - FOX Fan
		Initially, our guide told us that Hamburger Hill was off limits, because it was not cleared of mines or unexploded bombs.
		HINTON: The battle for Hamburger Hill was part of a much larger mission called "Operation Apache Snow." The hill sits in the A-Shau Valley.
		Despite the image most people have of Hamburger Hill, the battle was actually a resounding American victory.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,199447,00.html (1569 words)

	TCS Daily - The Battle of Hamburger Hill
		As they sit in Michelin-starred restaurants, washing down the foie gras with champagne, conversations among the Eurocrat heavyweights inevitably turn to the poor diet of the average European.
		In what we can only assume to be one of his more frivolous moments, Hoogervorst suggested forcing food outlets to reduce the size of the hamburgers they sell.
		It's an idea right out of the Soviet Union cookbook: the government issuing decrees on the maximum diameter of your burger (it makes you wonder what Hoogervorst would make of this initiative, by the way).
	www.tcsdaily.com /article.aspx?id=042706C (1009 words)

	Studies in Battle Command
		In all their battles, they directed their actions toward seizing key ground.
		It is worth noting at this juncture that Pemberton, although a lieutenant general, had never commanded a force of any size in battle.
		Rising at dawn, he inspected his battle line several times, making minute adjustments.
	cgsc.leavenworth.army.mil /carl/resources/csi/battles/battles.asp (20545 words)

	101st Airborne Combat Reports PIKE
		An fascinating chronological account of this famous battle fought by units of the 101 Airborne Division.
		The Battle of Dong Ap Bia was a bitter struggle to unseat a well entrenched NVA force from a mountain top in the A Shau valley.
		It will be forever known as the Battle of Hamburger Hill.
	www.militaryunits.com /101ABNreports.htm (269 words)

	The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Hamburger Hill - Feb. 24th, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Hamburger Hill proved to be the telling battle of the Vietnam War,
		Insert: Edward J. Henry: Ed was in A Company, 2-506th when they were sent to Hill 937 to assist in the taking of Hamburger Hill, May 1969.
		A Soldier grimases with pain as he waits to be evacuated from the U.S. base camp at Hamburger Hill.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/vetscor/850435/posts (9406 words)

	Military Battle Calendar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		U.S. Marines raised flag on Mt. Suribachi (Battle of Iow Jima) (1945)
		Battle of Bunker Hill (Hill 122) Began (1952)
		Battle of the Ia Drang Valley Began (1965)
	www.mozeyoninn.com /Aircraft/Calendar/Calendar.htm (108 words)

	The Battle of Hamburger Hill Pictures, The Battle of Hamburger Hill Videos, The Battle of Hamburger Hill on Maxim ...
		With an attack force of more than a million commie–sounding “workers” (and remember, these guys have their own university), their fryboys could make hamburger out of America’s fighting men and women.
		Find more about The Battle of Hamburger Hill on Maxim
		Two nuns are on a break in the rectory…
	www.maximonline.com /articles/index.aspx?a_id=3977 (496 words)

	Hamburger Hill (1987) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The focus here is on the brutality of war itself, so this is not a character-driven film.
		This will polarize some fans of the genre, but overall I think it is worth seeing to see up close the reality of warfare.
		Chances are if you like Platoon and Full Metal Jacket, you will enjoy Hamburger Hill as well.
	us.imdb.com /title/tt0093137 (467 words)

	Battlefield Files - Hamburger Hill 2005 Info
		Mr.Burns has updated his Hamburger Hill map which is an infantry based map with not many vehicles.
		You can fight your way through the marshlands and fire upon your enemies.
		This is the 2.nd Version of Hamburger Hill.
	battlefield2.filefront.com /file/Hamburger_Hill_2005;49308 (748 words)

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