Howard SochurekThe LIFE Picture Collection. choppers the engineers they got burned," he said with eyes distant. In mid-April of 1975, a small group of American journalists were invited to fly into the small provincial capital of Xuan Loc, South Vietnam, 35 miles north of Saigon, by commander Le Minh Dao. Pentagon was going to act on my idea. McNamara told LBJ that the enemy had not only met but exceeded our escalation. Col. Hal Moore, a 43-year-old West Point graduate out of Bardstown, Ky., was given orders to airlift his 450-man 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, into the valley on a search-and-destroy mission. Even in the eyes of the wars chief architect. Medical helicopter Pilot, Bruce Crandall pulled a pistol on him. In 1998, Galloway became the only American civilian to receive the Bronze Star Medal with "V" for heroism during the Vietnam War. The luck was with Moore. They arrived in the nick of time as the next PAVN assault began. Nobody offered any advice about going to war. Learn more about the Battle of Ia Drang at www.lzxray.com. She can be reached. All of this was merely prelude, setting the stage for the savage mid-November battles at LZs X-ray and Albany. We dont focus so much on if, or how much, we were damaged by what we witnessed or participated in. There was one photo of prisoners being guarded by an American soldier about 18 years old. high above the jungle on its way to the Ia Drang Valley. Joe Lee Galloway, a civilian Reporter, When I first went to war., By using this form you agree with the storage and handling of your data by this website. I consider myself one of you, Joe Lee Galloway told the Soldiers in the audience. That changed when the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment landed in Vietnam's Northern . Van Emst/Opelika-Auburn News via AP) For the next three days, that benighted strip of jungle would be ground zero in the Vietnam War . A photo of Rescorla as a grizzled lieutenant in Vietnam, moving forward with bayonet fixed during the horrific 1965 battle of Ia Drang in Vietnam, became one of the iconic images of the war. Long-forgotten photographs sometimes leap out at me and I am stunned by certain moments that I documented that were so routine when I made them, but are now infused with new emotion and meaning. During Hal G. Moores time in the R&D at the Pentagon, He had nothing to do with anything to do with the. The photograph that ran in LIFE in late October 1966 of Gunnery Sergeant Jeremiah Purdie, bleeding and bandaged, helped down a muddy hill by fellow marines, didnt really need a caption. It was, he said, a meeting engagement. Casualties were light to moderate, he added. Nine regular North Vietnamese regiments (27 infantry battalions) have been infiltrated in the past year, joining the estimated 83 VC battalions in the South. The enemy columnmen of the newly arriving 8th Battalion of the 66th Regimentstopped 120 yards short of the ambush and took a break. All total in the battle of X-Ray and the ambush near LZ Albany, 234 Americans were killed and more than 250 wounded in just four days and nights, November 14-17, 1965. Understand what has brought them to that point. Notable Awards. 2. along in my generation., Joe Lee Galloway I want to cover it. It was windy. Although they could have easily crushed the defendersa 12-man American A-Team and 100 Montagnard mercenary tribesmenthe enemy dangled them as bait, hoping to lure a relief force of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) out of Pleiku and into an ambush laid by their brothers of the 33rd Regiment. The other is to stick with our stated objectives and with the war, and provide what it takes in men and materiel. However, we noted with more than a little trepidation that none of them were budging from their holes as Dao led us down the dusty street. As a 24-year-old UPI correspondent, Galloway was at the first major battle of the Vietnam War. On the flight across the Pacific, McNamara wrote a top-secret memo to President Johnson dated November 30. When 1st Cav commander General Kinnard asked for permission to pursue the withdrawing North Vietnamese troops across the border into their sanctuaries inside Cambodia, cables flew between Saigon and Washington. All he could see was smoke rising through the jungle canopy. Yoichi OkamotoLBJ Library. She managed to get accredited by the Associated Press, covered numerous battles, was seriously wounded by shrapnel that would remain in her body, parachuted into combat (small and thin, she was weighed down so as not to be blown away), was taken prisoner by the North Vietnamese (which she used as an opportunity to produce a cover story for LIFE Magazine), and remained obsessed by the war until her death in 2006. In less time than it takes to tell, the panicked soldiers swarmed into the helicopter, which was to be our only way out. Lily Rothman is the History and Archives Editor for TIME. Fort Irwin, Calif., March 19, 2016. Larry Burrows The Life Picture Collection. Paul SchutzerThe Life Picture Collection/Getty Images. (AP Photo) We would often embed ourselves with a platoon or squad, but it was more of a gentlemans agreement than any kind of official policy, based in the main on the idea that we, the photographers, were there to tell their story, and they, the soldiers, realized that unlike them, we didnt have to be there. War sucks.. What they saw was a ratio of 12 North Vietnamese killed for each American. Photos from the field during the Battle of Ia Drang Valley in 1965. I was so eager to get to Vietnam before the war ended that my only real fear was that the first. He was there on the ground for the brutal and historic fall of Dien Bien Phu that marked the end of the French involvement in the region. And they would always end with the withdrawal of his forces across a nearby border to sanctuaries where they could rest, reinforce and refit for the next battle. The caption provides pertinent information about the circumstance: the who, what and where. We Were Soldiers is a 2002 American war film written and directed by Randall Wallace and starring Mel Gibson. In short, the battle at LZ X-Ray, 14-16 November 1965, constituted the major turning point in my life. They were about to make history, conducting the first nighttime heli-borne infantry assault into a very hot landing zone. discharging a load of infantrymen on a search and destroy mission. First time we ever tried to help the greenhorns heading for combat for the first time was in 2003 as Knight Ridder was preparing to send 37 reporters to war. The North Vietnamese soldiers term of service was radically differenthe would serve until victory or death. Then, said An, the fight would be man-to-man and much better odds. On July 16, 2001 and February 26, 2007, respectively, helicopter pilots . Joe Galloway, legendary war correspondent and the only the only civilian to receive the Bronze Star Medal with V for heroism in Vietnam, has died at 79 pic.twitter.com/58rLxyc6dj XVIII Airborne Corps (@18airbornecorps) August 18, 2021 Do you all ever talk about those times and the effect of all that upon you? His parents had probably been killed. hasta la vista foe another decade or so sound, well-grounded, staff assistance to senior Department of the Army General Staff officers. It created a sense of mutual respect that in many ways is challenged by the new embed ethos. America was losing the war at home; David was defeating Goliath. How much preparation are they given for dealing with what they encounter? We also found that getting together and sharing the stories helped us all smooth things out so we could go on for another year. A very angry PAVN battalion was right behind them. Joseph "Joe" Galloway kept a relationship with the division in the decades after the war. I thought I was bulletproof, invincible, as young men often do before they see the elephant. But nearly until the end of the U.S. war, if a helicopter or truck had a seat available, they would take you along. (b) Any person subject to this chapter who, (1) commits an assault with a dangerous weapon or other means or force likely to produce, death or grievous bodily harm; is guilty of aggravated assault and shall be punished as a, 921. I saw the medic shouldering wounded and then I saw the kid on his back in the grass. On November 14, 1965, the 1st Battalion (Bn), 7th Cavalry Regiment (Regt), 1st Air Cavalry (Cav) Division (Div) was sent on a search and destroy . The Battle of Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam began on November 14, 1965, and saw around 1,000 U.S. Army soldiers of the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) fight for four days with about 2,500 North Vietnamese troops. we were soldiers once and young ia drang the battle. We tore back to a landing zone that we had arrived at less than an hour later. Released prisoner of war Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm is greeted by his family at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Calif. As tens of thousands of anti-war protestors rioted in Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, President Johnson and his family watched from the bedroom at his ranch in Stonewall, Texas. Collections; . My father didnt know that Jeremiah Purdie had enlisted in a segregated Marine Corps 18 years earlier, that cooking in the mess and polishing shoes were the limits placed on his service. In 2002 at a Marine Combat Correspondents reunion in Florida I suggested that the military would do well to offer a boot camp of sorts for novice correspondents. Danielsens men joined the line, and Stocktons helicopter crews got out of their birds and joined the battle with their M-60 machine guns and the pilots pistols. They were immediately surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers. The Huey was on its way to becoming the most familiar icon of the war. Only jokes and funny stuff. Date: 10/14/2003 1:27:19 PM Pacific Standard time but you dont. My Leica was soaked, too, and I wasnt sure what kind of pictures it was producing. Young guerrillas wear grenades at their belts, preparing to fight the encroaching Viet Minh forces in the Red River Delta, northern Vietnam, 1954. Carons career in photography was very short 1966 to 1970 but his exceptional talent, intelligence, commitment and ubiquity leave us with an unmatched visual legacy. "Someone may be. I have had some journalists coming home from recent wars seek me out basically to ask me if I thought they were going crazy. Hal G. Moore, Bruce Crandall and Jon Mills went in to an officers bar, they were told to leave by, Hal G. Moore was wearing his web gear, grenades,ammo, M-16 rifle, Bruce Crandall and Jon, Hal G. Moore laying his M-16 on the bar, tells the manager if he did not serve them he would, Bruce Crandall and Jon mills, take their pistols out of their holsters, and place them on the, This by this act alone Bruce Crandall and Jon mills, by taking their pistols out of their holsters, (a) Any person subject to this chapter who attempts or offers with unlawful force or violence to, do bodily harm to another person, whether or not the attempt or offer is consummated, is. (Photo Credit: Zayne / Paramount Pictures / MovieStillsDB) We Were Soldiers is based on the novel, We Were Soldiers Once and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam, by renowned war correspondent Joe Galloway and Lt. Gen. Hal Moore.Both were present at the Battle of Ia Drang, the first large-scale engagement of . ======================= Thus, the enemy will be caught in a dilemma: He has to drag out the war in order to win it and does not possess, on the other hand, the psychological and political means to fight a long-drawn-out war.. There is no way to avoid it. -- Photo by Peter Arnett for The Associated Press. It was almost a religious experience for me to record this extraordinary event. Subscribe to receive our weekly newsletter with top stories from master historians. Our goal was to win the war.. Joe Lee Galloways true fillings on PTSD! Photo by Staff Sgt. In just over one month, 305 American dead had been added to the toll from the Ia Drang fight alone. When the war ended in 1975, that man and five others were all that were left alive of the 400. He is the only civilian to receive a combat medal form the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. Gilles Carons atypical vertical image of a face-to-face encounter exposes deep cultural divide and distrust. A few years later on that fateful day in 1972 on the Trang Bang road, my brothers goal was accomplished. We Were Soldiers Once.and Young: la Drang - The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam is a 1992 book by Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore (Ret.) I think the first soldier I ran across who was clearly unhinged by combat was in the Landing. with Joe Galloway, and photos from "We Were Soldiers" Find original prints from the Battle of Ia Drang at www.weweresoldiers.net. All rights reserved. It was forever a search for a picture, and you never knew, sometimes for weeks, whether you had that picture or not. As a young boy did you ever hear any soldier you knew talk about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder/PTSD? Hal G. Moore, Lt. Senior General Vo Nguyen Giap studied the battles and correctly identified the helicopter as the biggest innovation, biggest threat and biggest change in warfare that the Americans brought to the battlefield. Beginning Nov. 14, 1965, Moore led his battalion in a fierce battle around Landing Zone X-Ray in the Ia Drang Valley. The captives were young children and old women and one woman is nursing her baby. My picture of the U.S. corpsman carrying an injured child away from the battle in Hu is a rare occasion to show the true value of human kindness and the dignity of man. Nov. 14-18, 1965< this would be LZ X-Ray's battle, Robert Saucedo should have been leaving the war. And, while by any standards the American performance there was heroic and tactical airmobility was proven, the cost of such victories was clearly unsustainable, even then. All through that endless night, the PAVN troops combed through the elephant grass searching for their own wounded, and finishing off any wounded Americans they came across. I used to believe that time would let those memories fade and allow me a measure of peace. Joe Galloway, at a Medal of Honor ceremony from Ia Drang battle helicopter pilot Bruce Crandall at the White House in 2007. $5.64. Armed with an M16 that he personally took to Vietnam, Joe Lee Galloway. Christopher Calvert, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Consumed by a ferocious anger at the hypocrisies of politics at various levels, in her last years Leroy created a website and then a book, Under Fire: Great Photographers and Writers in Vietnam, paying homage to her colleagues 40 years after the war had ended. Kinnard, and by Colonel Moore. Knowlen sent out three platoon-sized ambush patrols. But for his actions this night of November 3, John B. Stockton would be relieved of duty and sent to work a desk job in Saigon. (Paperback 9780345475817) It seems to me that journalists are even more reluctant than soldiers to seek treatment for PTSD. One of those soldiers wrote of marching south in 1965 with a battalion of some 400 men. Despite these numbers, senior American officials in Saigon declared the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley a great victory. In 1954 a French unit on patrol during the First Indochina War is ambushed by Viet Minh forces . They knew each other and their capabilities. We Were Soldiers Once.and Young: Ia Drang - the Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam by Harold G. Moore, Joseph L. Galloway. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.. I began having a nightmare that was always the same: I was on my knees begging for my I almost did not make the photo the man with the flag and Nixon on top of the aircraft stairs. The Ia Drang River Campaign of early November is an example. Joe Galloway takes a hard look at the assessments of Ia Drang by the war's architects in Washington, Saigon and Hanoi: McNamara, Westmoreland, Ho and Giap, https://www.historynet.com/ia-drang-where-battlefield-losses-convinced-ho-giap-and-mcnamara-the-u-s-could-never-win/, Jerrie Mock: Record-Breaking American Female Pilot, How Operation Homecoming Was Sprung into Action to Repatriate American POWs. The dust-offs started coming within 30 minutes. Available for both RF and RM licensing. LBJ ordered McNamara to Saigon to find out what happened at Ia Drang, and what it meant. You had tactics, and it takes very decisive tactics to win a strategic victory.If we could defeat your tacticsyour helicoptersthen we could defeat your strategy. Hal Buell, former photography director at the Associated Press, who led their photo operations during the Vietnam War: In all wars, the battlefield medic is often the stopgap between life and death. Francis Ford Coppola was so inspired by this image that he included a scene in his 1979 film Apocalypse Now with the famous line, Any man brave enough to fight with his guts strapped on him can drink from my canteen any day.. A year later Huet was seriously wounded and was treated by medics until evacuated. The Communists appear to have decided to increase their forces in South Vietnam both by heavy recruitment in the South (especially in the Delta) and by infiltration of regular North Vietnamese forces from the North. In 1954, Howard was again on assignment in Vietnam when he was called home to Milwaukee to be with his mother, who was terminally ill. Bob McDades 2-7 Battalion plus one company of 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry, would follow Tully part of the way, then break off west and northwest toward another clearing closer to the river dubbed LZ Albany. Dao wisely called an end to his press tour. With Karen Spears Zacharias Some had feared that the helicopters were too flimsy and fragile to fly into the hottest of landing zones. The soldiers eyes reveal, and you dont need a caption to explain it, that he most likely experienced hell along the way. In a message dated 1/15/2004 3:23:36 PM Pacific Standard Time, jgalloway writes: like i say russell, if you had anything worth taking i would sue, you for libel and slander and take it all. And at least one psychiatrist treating war veterans has used it in his practice. At the moment I hit the button I did not recognize the GI who was dashing across. After Ia Drang: What McNamara Knew, and When He Knew It. As the primary General Staff action Officer for the Armys Airborne Research and Development program, his aggressive, intelligent efforts, mature judgment , keen perception resulted in a comprehensive, and, effective Research and Development program.His thoroughness and initiative, together with a detailed, grasp of the complex inter-Agency and inter-Service coordinations required for the formulation of completed, airborne projects, resulted in a continued improvement in the field Armies airborne capability and the. On November 3, divisional headquarters ordered Lt. Col. John B. Stockton and his 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, battalion of scouts to focus attention on a particular trail alongside the Ia Drang River close to the Cambodian border. The rest is history. HistoryNet.com is brought to you by HistoryNet LLC, the worlds largest publisher of history magazines. Galloway had. I was 23 years old when I arrived in Vietnam in April 1965. We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the place now called Victoria, and all First Peoples living and working on this land. Find Joseph Galloway stock photos and editorial news pictures from Getty Images. What was the worst case of PTSD you ever came across? In November 1965, journalist Joseph L. Galloway hitched a ride on an Army helicopter flying to the Ia Drang Valley, a rugged landscape of red dirt, brown elephant grass and truck-size termite. The Marine Corps chief of information took notes and called me later to tell me that the. Military options and recommendations. We arent allowed to forget; we arent supposed to forget. They have seen a loved one sacrificed in a war, and theirs is a pain that never heals, never goes away. Ia Drang Valley, Vietnam, November 1965. For his extraordinary heroism and gallantry in action around Landing Zone X-Ray, Moore received the Distinguished Service Cross. It was the morning. As the president walked into the room, he was holding McNamaras November 30 memo in his hand. you dont. Free shipping. How has your own PTSD affected you? We settled down in Tokyo, my next assignment. (Photo Credit: Joe Galloway / Bettmann / Getty Images) On the second day of fighting, he even went out into the heavy fire to rescue a soldier, Pfc. Stockton, an Army brat who had grown up in horse cavalry posts all across the West, had resurrected black cavalry Stetson hats for his men and smuggled the 9th Cavs mascot Maggie the mule aboard ship and 8,000 miles to Vietnam in defiance of another of Dick Knowles orders. Later I realized that I had shot a photo, in the heat of battle, of my childhood friend from the little town of Refugio, Texas. I had just returned from Albany myself, and I stood and told the general, Thats bullshit, sir, and you know it! The news conference dissolved in a chorus of angry shouting. Vince was rushing to. From: jgalloway krwashington The platoon of Americans held their breath and their fire until they heard the louder clanking noise of the enemys heavy weapons company moving into the kill zone. In the top-secret memo he wrote on his way back to Washington, excerpted below, he coolly predicts the deadly road ahead and the unlikely prospects for victory. The war correspondent Joe Galloway, who has died aged 79, just as the Afghanistan conflict of 20 years has reached its chaotic end, predicted such a finish long before. He came running towards my foxhole with, his clothes on fire. ======================== He is also survived by two sons and a stepdaughter. we were soldiers once and young ia drang valley 1965. we were soldiers once and young ia drang. This soldier and I exchanged pleasantries the way you would in the dusty heat. After a short stay, Merron grabbed another chopper going back to Camp Holloway, and the word spread quickly that a battalion of Americans had been massacred in the valley. 10 kilowatt generator off it pad on an airbase. On television screens and magazine pages around the world, photographs told a story of a fight that only got more confusing, more devastating, as it went on. Suddenly, a mortar shell landed in the dust no more than 10 feet from us. Purdie was being restrained from turning back to aid his CO. A few frames later, Larry Burrows took another photograph: Purdie is still being held back, but in front of him is another wounded man and Purdies arms are outstretched. Subj: RE: Galloway never wore a uniform either So I just moved on with my life and career. "He loved the boys and girls of the U.S. military. On that day, There were 30 or 40 photographers boarded on a flat-bed, including TV. In November 1965, journalist Joseph L. 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