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	The Battle of the Ia Drang, 1965 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Battle of the Ia Drang Valley was the first large-scale fight between the PAVN and the newly arriving Americans in South Vietnam.
		We focus on the Battles at LZ X-Ray and Albany, which commonly are said to be the Battle of the Ia Drang.
		The Ia Drang Valley lay near the Cambodian border, dominated by the giant Chu Pong massif, southeast of Plieku in the Central Highlands.
	orbat.com /site/history/historical/vietnam/iadrangvalley1965.html (4943 words)

	We Were Soldiers Once... and Young (www.combatsim.com)
		At the same time, and setting the stage for Ia Drang, are Hanoi's military planners who envision a classic conventional campaign to crush the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in October 1965.
		Ia Drang was a response to the nearly successful October, 1965 attack on Plei Me, which was thwarted when the U.S. unexpectedly brought in U.S. troops as reinforcements.
		Tactically and strategically, this battle was a disaster, for though both sides ultimately claimed victory -- the North Vietnamese Army with a casualty rate of at least 10:1 -- the NVA lost their fear of the helicopter and developed the techniques to defeat it at the moment of its introduction.
	www.combatsim.com /archive/htm/htm_arc4/soldiers1.htm (1330 words)

	Battle of Ia Drang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Ia Drang was the first major battle of the Vietnam War between the United States Army and the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN).
		The battle derives its name from the Ia Drang River which runs through the valley northwest of Plei Me, in which the engagement took place.
		The battle served as a microcosm for the war as a whole.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Ia_Drang (4839 words)

	From Vietnam to the World Trade Center
		It was captured during the Ia Drang Valley Battle in 1965.
		Ia Drang was the Army's first major battle in Vietnam, and one of its bloodiest.
		Rescorla left Ia Drang with a battered French bugle, seized as a trophy from the Vietnamese.
	www.tapsbugler.com /Vietnam-WTC.html (625 words)

	Army Logistician (Forward Support in the Ia Drang Valley)
		During the battle, mechanics from C Company, 27th Maintenance Battalion, replaced recoil mechanisms on two howitzers firing in support of X-Ray (a maintenance task usually requiring evacuation) in order to maintain the rate of fire necessary to stave off defeat.
		In the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley, artillery proved to be the difference between life and death for Hal Moore’s troopers.
		In the heat of battle in the Ia Drang, Captain Joe Spencer defined logistics tenets that would influence an entire generation of support doctrine: anticipation, integration, continuity, responsiveness, and improvisation.
	www.almc.army.mil /alog/issues/MarApr06/ia_drang_spprt.html (3148 words)

	Amazon.de: We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam: English Books: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Much more than a conventional battle study, the book is a frank record of the emotional reactions of the GIs to the terror and horror of this violent and bloody encounter.
		This is true narration of a story that happened on Nov 14, 1965 in the Ia Drang Valley, also known as the Valley of Death, where Moore and 400 young troopers from the US Cavalry encountered 2,000 Vietcong soldiers.
		Ia Drang featured the new U.S. battlefield concept of airmobility and the North Vietnamese decided to give battle in a desperate attempt to find out the best way to deal with American helicopters and fire power.
	www.amazon.de /We-Were-Soldiers-Once-Young/dp/0060975768 (1836 words)

	USARJ & 9th TSC Camp Zama,JAPAN - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Battle of Ia Drang, as it came to be called, marked the first clash between American troops and North Vietnamese regulars.
		We Were Soldiers Once, and Young is the story of that battle, giving a detailed account of both the American 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division and the North Vietnamese 32d, 33d, and 66th Regiments in the rugged Ia Drang Valley of South Vietnam's Central Highlands.
		Second, the battle in the Ia Drang was an important learning experience for both sides, and this book outlines why.
	www.usarj.army.mil /heritage/person08.htm (326 words)

	Page 3 (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In The Battle Of The Ia Drang Valley
		The Ia Drang Valley campaign actually began on November 14, 1965, with an air assault into LZ X-Ray, by elements of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, under the command of Lt Col. Harold Moore.
		The battle continued to grow until it was determined that the enemy consisted of 500-600 North Vietnamese Regular troops.
	www.garry-owen.com.cob-web.org:8888 /Page_3.html (444 words)

	Association of the United States Army: Beyond the Ia Drang Valley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Following the Ia Drang Battle, Moore was promoted to command the 1st Cavalry Division’s 3rd Brigade that saw action on the Bong Son Plain in January 1966.
		During the Ia Drang Battle, for example, much of Moore’s efforts were directed at rescuing an isolated platoon of one of his companies.
		In the Ia Drang’s opening minutes, Moore’s instincts told him that the enemy commander was likely to strike on his left flank, heading for the clearing that marked the landing zone.
	www.ausa.org /webpub/DeptArmyMagazine.nsf/byid/CCRN-6CCS62 (3298 words)

	Death in the Ia Drang Valley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Smith was wounded in the battle of LZ Albany and received the Bronze Star with "V" for valor and the Purple Heart.
		Smith returned to the Ia Drang Valley in 1993 and filed an ABC News report that Roberts said was "one of the most moving and affecting things you've ever seen.
		He was injured in November 1965 during the battle of Ia Drang Valley, one of the first fights between U.S. combat forces and the North Vietnamese army.
	www.mishalov.com /death_ia_drang_valley.html (10554 words)

	The Vietnam War > University Without Walls Spring 2004
		The most famous action of the Ia Drang Valley campaign began on November 14, when elements of the 1/7 Cavalry were airlifted into a clearing designated Landing Zone X-Ray.
		The U.S. Command, however, was quite satisfied with the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley overall because PAVN casualties had been far higher than American casualties.
		This battle serves some importance because it was, along with the attack on Plei Me, the first heavy contact between North Vietnamese troops and American ground forces.
	www2.skidmore.edu /uww/vietnam/ia_drang_valley.htm (317 words)

	Julia Compton Moore -- an Honorary Unsubscribe
		The Battle of Ia Drang also highlights a technological advance that would play an enormous role in the rest of the war: this was perhaps the first place where helicopter-based, air-mobile operations demonstrated their combat potential.
		We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang - the Battle That Changed the War...
		Hal Moore, were dropped by helicopter into a small clearing in the Ia Drang Valley They were immediately surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers.
	www.honoraryunsubscribe.com /julia_compton_moore.html (1053 words)

	Chapter II : Ia Drang
		The battle of Ia Drang illustrates the influence of the helicopter on combat operations.
		By 1700 hours Company B, 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry, was committed to the battle, and by 1900 hours the platoons of the 9th Cavalry Squadron, having found and fixed the enemy, were airlifted from the area.
		This battle marked the first time a perimeter under heavy fire was reinforced at night by heliborne troops air-assaulted into an unfamiliar landing zone.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/Vietnam/tactical/chapter2.htm (4778 words)

	Ia Drang and Landing Zone X-Ray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the late morning of November 14, 1965, several platoons of American troops landed by helicopter at a clearing located in the Ia Drang River Valley, Vietnam.
		They knew it would be necessary to fight bloody battles in order to formulate countermeasures to the new techniques of waging air-mobile war.
		Those interested in learning more about the battle at X-Ray are encouraged to visit the Books and Movies section of the WTJ Store.
	www.wtj.com /articles/xray (555 words)

	Robert Utley
		I have a vivid memory of the excitement and pride I felt in November 1965, when we learned of the Battle of Ia Drang, doubly so on learning that the chief unit involved was the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry.
		At Ia Drang Moore commanded 1/7 and Galloway was a journalist covering the fight.
		The 7th won the three-day battle against overwhelming odds but at a cost of 230 dead in the two battalions and the support units that got them in and out.
	www.friendslittlebighorn.com /Robert_utley.htm (2224 words)

	Accuracy In Media - Guest Columns - Ia Drang II
		Both were also true of the battle of the Ia Drang, the American army's first major battle with the Vietnamese communists, a battle brilliantly memorialized in the book "We Were Soldiers Once And Young," which is soon to be a movie.
		The United States regarded the Ia Drang battle as a victory But the Vietnamese communist forces did not consider it a defeat.
		If the results of the battle of Gardez are such as to lead the Taliban and al-Quaida to conclude that they can fight us, the Afghan war may just be starting.
	www.aim.org /publications/guest_columns/lind/2002/20mar2002.html (793 words)

	Former Army Aviator to Speak on Vietnam War at Embry-Riddle
		Fighting in the Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam's central highlands occurred between October and December 1965, with the most intense action taking place in mid-November.
		The battle between the troopers and the 2,000 soldiers of the North Vietnamese Army who surrounded them has been called one of the most savage in history.
		The Ia Drang Valley campaign ended with an estimated 6,000 North Vietnamese dead and 1,000 U.S. soldiers killed or missing in action.
	www.erau.edu /er/newsmedia/newsreleases/2003/salomone.html (498 words)

	TheHistoryNet Discussion Forums: The Battle of the Ia Drang in 1965 changed the course of the Vietnam War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Battle of the Ia Drang in 1965 changed the course of the Vietnam War.
		Jenks OK Re: The Battle of the Ia Drang in 1965 changed the course of the Vi...
		That was the end of the IA Drang campaign not X-Ray.
	historynet.zeroforum.com /zerothread?id=195 (610 words)

	Invisible Heroes - Hero
		In 1965, a tiny American combat unit entered a clearing in Viet Nam’s Ia Drang valley and was quickly surrounded by nearly 2,000 enemy troops.
		The ensuing battle, the first major engagement of the Vietnam War, was one of the most savage in U.S. history.
		Pat Payne fought beside Rick Rescorla in the vicious battle of Ia Drang.
	www.invisibleheroes.com /hero.asp?issue=200 (539 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| Vietnam \| Rescue at LZ Albany
		The Ia Drang campaign provided the U.S. Army a remarkable--if dangerous--opportunity to demonstrate the merits of its newly developed airmobile tactics.
		Months before the Ia Drang campaign, Bennett was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for making an emergency night flight to an American forward artillery base on the mountain of Dak To, where a shell had cooked off and exploded in the barrel of a howitzer, critically wounding 17 men.
		Bennett's role over the Ia Drang Valley may be considered a minor one in the grand scheme of the campaign, but to the severely wounded who were desperate for medical attention, and to the beleaguered troops surrounded and running low on ammo, a fearless chopper pilot was the answer to many prayers.
	www.historynet.com /vn/bl_rescue_at_lz_albany (1151 words)

	American Perspective of Pleime Battle
		In the Pleime Battle, the main forces of the relief column were made up by the 3rd ARVN Armored Cavalry Squadron with US air support and artillery support provided by the US 1st Cavalry.
		In this trilogy, the Pleime Battle was the main and principal battle, with the Ia Drang and Duc Co as the two secondary aftermaths intended as moppep-up campaigns.
		In light of this trilogy, the outcomes of the battle were more positive when the ground forces were made of ARVN units with fire powers support lend by US units, and were more negative when the ground forces were made up of solely of US units.
	members.tripod.com /~nguyentin/pleime-am2.htm (795 words)

	Battle of Ia Drang (1965)
		The Americans were in a loose circle defending the perimeter of the landing zone (LZ), with a small reserve in the center under the command of Col. Moore.
		On the second turn of battle the NVA and VC were already threatening to breakthrough in the south, and Col. Moore's command post came under fire.
		Battle 2: : This time the Vietnamese plan was to attack the Americans from all directions, find a weak spot in the defenses, and exploit it with their reserves.
	www.juniorgeneral.org /vietnam/vietnam.html (2174 words)

	The History Place - We Were Soldiers: Movie Review
		The Battle of Ia Drang also marked the first big showdown between U.S. Army combat troops and North Vietnamese Army (NVA) regulars.
		The American troops are led into battle by Lieutenant Colonel Hal Moore, played by schmaltzy Mel Gilbson like a reincarnation of John Wayne, with plenty of 'Aw Shucks' patriot clichés and phoney-baloney red-white-and-blue emotionalism.
		And so, when these guys finally go into battle after the long, long send-off from their stateside families, we watch the bloody action on screen in a rather detached manner and that's not good.
	www.historyplace.com /specials/reviews/were-soldiers.htm (680 words)

	The Truth on Pleime Battle (m)
		And the Pleime Battle was the last effort of a series of consecutive attacks launched by the Viet Cong since the beginning of 1965 in II Corps.
		It is worthwhile to point out that unlike the battle of Duc Co that had occurred two months earlier, II Corps Command did not have to use the two seasoned reserved forces of airborne and marine corps, and had merely use an infantry battalion along with two ranger battalions and the 3rd Armored Squadron.
		What happened at the Ia Drang Valley was not pre-planned by either side: the Viet Cong did not antiticipate that the American troops had the capacity to pile in so swiftly their units onto the battlefield; and the American was caught by surprise in stepping inadvertently on a huge ants colony.
	members.tripod.com /~nguyentin/pleime-history-2.htm (3830 words)

	Hal Moore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Moore and North Vietnamese casualties during the Battle of Ia Drang.
		He was most famous as the lieutenant colonel in command of the 1st battalion, U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, at the Battle of Ia Drang on November 14–16, 1965, in Vietnam.
		Moore was known as "Yellow Hair" to his troops at the battle at Ia Drang, for his blonde hair, and as a tongue-in-cheek homage referencing Lt. Col.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Hal_Moore (310 words)

	The Ia Drang Campaign
		The seige of this camp opened the action in the Ia Drang campaign.
		Within an hour, a fierce battle is underway between the American Air Cav troopers and the aggressive 9th Bn of the 66th Regiment of the Peoples Army of Vietnam - North Vietnamese Regulars.
		The afternoon is consumed in a desperate fire-storm battle for survival in 100 degree heat for Moore and his men as the PAVN commander throws the 7th Bn of the 66th and a composite battalion of the 33rd Regt in a furious attack against the 7th Cavalry left flank and center.
	www.weweresoldiers.net /campaign.htm (485 words)

	Pleiku-Ia Drang Veterans Honored with Medallion
		The veterans of the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley, one of the most devastating and dramatic battles of the Vietnam War, gathered recently in Washington, D.C. to mark a solemn occasion: the fortieth anniversary of the fight that forever changed their lives.
		An Oral History Project and a Seminar on the Battles of the Ia Drang was jointly conducted by the Vietnam Center at Texas Tech University and the Ben Franklin Global Forum.
		The Pleiku-Ia Drang 40th Anniversary Medalllion is available for purchase at www.nwtmint.com.
	www.military.com /forums/0,15240,83087,00.html (1054 words)

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