Fifty years ago today, November 14, 1965, the first wave of troopers from a battalion of the First Cavalry Division, an elite unit of the U.S. Army that had turned in its horses for helicopters and an ...

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 ...

We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang - the Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam. New York: Presidio Press, 2004. Pribbenow, Merle L., and William J. Duiker. Victory in Vietnam: The Official ...

On the sun-dappled floor of South Vietnam’s Ia Drang Valley that November afternoon, Army Capt. George G. Forrest had a fleeting thought: How nice it would be to be someplace else. Forrest and other ...

FORT BENNING, Ga. (May 2, 2012) -- A gathering of heroes and legends took place Saturday in Columbus. The leaders and Soldiers who fought in the Battle of Ia Drang Valley, the U.S. military's first ...

This article was originally published Nov. 11, 2015, as part of the Vietnam at 50 project. It is republished unedited in its original form. 1965 was the year America took the gloves off in Vietnam, ...

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 ...

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FORT HOOD, Texas (Oct. 12, 2012) -- Retired Command Sgt. Maj. Basil L. Plumley, former command sergeant major of 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment "Garry Owen," 1st ...