Vince Cantu and I went through school together right to graduation with the Refugio High School Class of 1959 a total of 55 of us. An empty helmet is its owner still alive? History is who we are and why we are the way we are.. Shoot pictures. JG. To that point, some 1,100 Americans in total had died in the United States slow-growing but ever-deepening involvement in South Vietnam, most of them by twos and threes in a war where Americans were advisers to the South Vietnamese battalions fighting Viet Cong guerrillas. General Dao, however, was full of vim and eager for the battle. 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. Both sides had lost interest in taking prisoners. 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. (2) with intent to temporarily to deprive or defraud another person of the use and benefit of property or to appropriate to his own use the use of any person other than the owner, is guilty of wrongful appropriation. They knew each other and their capabilities. When my book about the war, We Were Soldiers Onceand Young, came out in 1992, Vince Cantu was driving a city bus in Houston. Tell them that they will get better, and help them get there. A siege by a massive North Vietnamese force was about to take place. Prior to Nov. 14, 1965, the U.S. Army had never met its North Vietnamese counterpart in a major battle. The answer from LBJs White House was that absolutely no hot pursuit across the borders would be authorized. He and five of his brothers, four of my Moms brothers were all in uniform in WWII. The real Harold G. Moore and Joseph Galloway traveled back to Vietnam after the war and met the real Nguyen Huu An as research for their book so they could understand the battle strategy of the North Vietnamese at Ia Drang. Moore claimed he and An had no bitterness and respected each other as soldiers. The book was later adapted. 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. A short time later, Capa was killed by a land mine while out on a mission with the U.S. troops. He saw everything; he saw the fatigue of the American soldiers, their fear, the prisoners fear. A kid headed out for R&R and a floor stacked with KIAs [killed in action]. I just thought the first guy I saw was what my uncles referred to as shell shocked. When Hal Moore took the first lift of 16 Hueysall that he was given for this maneuverinto the landing zone he had chosen in the Ia Drang, he was painfully aware that he was on the ground with only 90 men, and that they would be there alone for half an hour or longer while the choppers returned to Plei Me Camp, picked up waiting troops and made the return flight. Bestselling author and war correspondent Joe Galloway passed away last week at the age . Purdie, wounded for the third time in the war, was about to be flown to a hospital ship off the Vietnamese coast and leave that country for his last time. is shown front and center, resting on the ground in the soft gray light like a discarded soup bowl or a cleaved skull. Fort Benning during battles in the Ia Drang (Guest blog). Joe Galloway, a war correspondent whose wrenching account of the first major battle of the Vietnam War was the basis for the book "We Were Soldiers Once and Young," which became a best seller. This picture of a haunted-looking young American GI taking refuge under a poncho from monsoon rains in the jungles outside of Da Nang while on patrol in 1972 is one of them. What was his next act, and what happened after he returned from Vietnam? Central Intelligence Agency. Then slowly, and one by one, South Vietnamese troopers began to stick their heads out of foxholes they had dug in the streets. Cole, himself wounded, peered beneath his bandaged eye to treat the wounds of a fallen Marine. On the morning of November 17, Lt. Col. Bob Tullys 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry, would march out of X-ray, headed northeast directly toward LZ Columbus, where a battery of 105mm howitzers was positioned. Urge them to get some counselling; to spend some time talking with others afflicted by PTSD. Two of those enemy regiments had already been busy since arriving in the Central Highlands. Both sides understood that the war had changed suddenly and dramatically in those few days. These men had seen buddies cut in half by shrapnel from an incoming round, or watched a friends head explode from a bullet between the eyes that earned him a one-way ticket home in a body bag. life and a North Vietnamese officer was pointing a pistol in my face. to: lzalbany65, russell: Howard SochurekThe LIFE Picture Collection. Instead, he was riding in the 16th helicopter in a formation. Fort Irwin, Calif., March 19, 2016. Lt. General Hal Moore: Thank you Joe. Within an hour of landing and the second airlift of troops just arriving, the battle at X-ray was joined. All they need is some counselling and some understanding. I did not meet my Dad till late in 1945. Do you think Gold Star family members can suffer from PTSD even though they have never been in a combat zone? One of Westmorelands brighter young aides later would write, a strategy of attrition is proof that you have no strategy at all. In any event, the strategy was an utter failure. Jimmy Nakayama. The Marine Corps chief of information took notes and called me later to tell me that the. They were about to make history, conducting the first nighttime heli-borne infantry assault into a very hot landing zone. Dao wisely called an end to his press tour. Yoichi OkamotoLBJ Library. JG All he could see was smoke rising through the jungle canopy. The soldiers eyes reveal, and you dont need a caption to explain it, that he most likely experienced hell along the way. A class of prime youth shredded in seconds. On July 16, 2001 and February 26, 2007, respectively, helicopter pilots . This image perfectly shows the seductive and corrupting influence of consumerism on the innocent civilians of Vietnam. . Sometimes, even in war, that moment can tell a whole story with clarity, but it can be ambiguous too. ++"They ran to our foxholes. ============================= "On the second day, they dropped a couple of napalms in the (landing zone), and a couple of guys bringing in. During the Vietnam War, he often worked alongside the American troops he covered and was awarded a Bronze Star Medal in 1998 for having carried a badly wounded man to safety while he was under very heavy enemy fire in 1965. Here, lightly edited, are their responses. And preferably as Pyle covered his war., Joe Lee Galloway I was so eager to get to Vietnam before the war ended that my only real fear was that the first troops to land would finish off the Viet Cong and I would miss my war.. The film in my Nikon had become stuck to the pressure plate from all the moisture. This image of the sheltering soldier is particularly compelling to me for what I dont know. He had just turned 30. It was a 34-mile roundtrip. 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. Free shipping. Lily Rothman is the History and Archives Editor for TIME. Soldiers and journalists alike are reluctant to seek treatment, and for the same reason: A fear that it is a confession of fear, and may damage your career. Joe Galloway is presented a branding iron by Maj. Gen. Michael Bills, commanding general, 1st Cavalry Division, during a screening of We Were Soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, June 11, 2015. The Ia Drang River Campaign of early November is an example. Another 71 Americans had been killed in earlier, smaller skirmishes that led up to the Ia Drang battles. 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. . contribution that his branch made to the accomplishment of the Air Mobility Division mission. The worst cases of PTSD are usually confined for treatment in a VA facility. 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. Joe Galloway was awarded the Bronze Star with V device for his service in the battle. This photo shows two soldiers watching an area with enemy presence and keeping a low profile. It was windy. Nine regular North Vietnamese regiments (27 infantry battalions) have been infiltrated in the past year, joining the estimated 83 VC battalions in the South. Available for both RF and RM licensing. Colonel Crandall broke his back when he crash landed a year later while rescuing 12 trapped soldiers. Just as he pulled it I came up fighting for my life, and threw my wife out of bed and against the wall of our apartment. But for that fraction of a second, in his face, his posture, was all the fatigue and despair of a young soldier who is surely wondering what in the hell hes doing there, so far from home. Larry Burrows The Life Picture Collection. The 1st Cavalrys big Chinook helicopters lifted batteries of 105mm howitzers, leap-frogging along within range of the dirt road that led to Plei Me. These hard Marines suddenly became the most gentle, loving persons. With Karen Spears Zacharias to: lzalbany65 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. What they saw was a ratio of 12 North Vietnamese killed for each American. Leroy went from France to Vietnam in 1966 at the age of 21, with a single camera, no assignments and $150 in her pocket; she would stay until 1968. Which became We Were Soldiers Once and Young. This is not a normal war photograph. There are submarines, there are mini-submarines, and then there are human torpedoes. 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. One of those platoons set up near the trail and began hearing the noise of a large group moving toward it on the trail. General Giap also learned one very important lesson. A Mars bar was a very special thing indeed. Back in Saigon, General Westmoreland and MACV G-3, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations General William DePuy, were studying the statistics of the Ia Drang battles. This particular Viet Cong had fought for three days with his intestines in a cooking bowl strapped onto his stomach. We Were Soldiers is a 2002 American war film written and directed by Randall Wallace and starring Mel Gibson. ======================= The last photo in the photo essay shows the medic and a child walking away together, holding hands, and the childs head is burned from napalm. From that point forward, Giap would decide where and when the battles would be fought, and when they would end. On the flight across the Pacific, McNamara wrote a top-secret memo to President Johnson dated November 30. This photograph has come to be known as Reaching Out.. To honor that commitment, "10%" of the purchase price of every Joe. Medical helicopter Pilot, Bruce Crandall pulled a pistol on him. One is to go now for a compromise solution (something substantially less than the favorable outcome I described in my memorandum of November 3) and hold further deployments to a minimum. Shaking it at the defense secretary, he said, You mean to tell me no matter what I do I cant win in Vietnam? McNamara nodded yes. This photo was only one of several Huet made of Cole that were published on the cover and inside pages of LIFE magazine. 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. He covered the 1st Cavalry Division's Battle of the Ia Drang Valley in 1965. -- Photo by Peter Arnett for The Associated Press. He was immensely proud to receive the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award for superlative photography requiring exceptional courage and enterprise abroad from the Overseas Press Club in 1955. He also ordered all four company commanders to come forward to receive instructions on how he wanted them deployed around the perimeter of Albany. One morning near the end of the unsuccessful Laos invasion of early 1971 (an attempt to cut the Ho Chi Minh trail), I wandered into a group of young soldiers who were tasked with fixing tanks and track vehicles which were regularly being rocketed by North Vietnamese troops just down the road. He is the only civilian to receive a combat medal form the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. The sketchy American intelligence Moore was provided said the area was home base for possibly a regiment of the enemy. It seems to me that journalists are even more reluctant than soldiers to seek treatment for PTSD. Photo by Staff Sgt. quote Joe Lee Galloway, (a) Any person subject to this chapter who wrongfully takes, obtains, or withholds, by any means, from the possession of the owner or of any other person any money, personal property, or article of value of any kind, (1) with intent permanently to deprive or defraud another person of the use and benefit of property or to appropriate it to his won use or the use of any person other than the owner, steals that property and is guilty of larceny; or. Excerpts from Memorandum From Secretary of Defense McNamara to President Johnson, Washington, November 30, 1965. Many had that intense blaze of realization when a comrade was suddenly, violently, unexpectedly gone, and marveled at still being left intact. He is the only civilian awarded a medal of valor by the U.S . My first memories are of houses full of frightened women looking out the window for the telegraph delivery man. This sprang from a soldierly admiration for their dedication and bravery qualities difficult to discern in the average government soldier. He did a cautious aerial reconnaissance by helicopter and selected a football fieldsized clearing at the base of the Chu Pong Massif, a 2,401-foot-high piece of ground that stretched to the Cambodian border and beyond for several miles. Why were these uniformed men just giving them away? Galloway was immortalized in the movie; We Were Soldiers (2002) when he and Lt Col Harold Moore's battalion of airmobile Infantry soldiers from the 1 st Cavalry Division fought with multiple North Vietnamese . But veterans arent the only community who suffer from PTSD. How those photographs made history is underscored throughout the new documentary series The Vietnam War, from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Pentagon was going to act on my idea. No one knew quite what to do to help him. No one was expecting people to come out of the bombed-out burning buildings, but when they did, I was ready with my Leica camera and I feel my brother guided me to capture that image. Article written by Joe Lee Galloway, the time Bruce Crandall was caught trying to sling load a. In 1954 a French unit on patrol during the First Indochina War is ambushed by Viet Minh forces . 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. Was 1/60 fast enough? Caption: U.S. cavalrymen carry a fellow soldier to an evacuation zone after he was seriously wounded in a North Vietnamese ambush in South Vietnam's Ia Drang Valley, mid-November 1965. 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. Or is it the young woman and her two children being confronted by an American GI? But there and then, I decided to follow in his footsteps and complete his mission. (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. How has your own PTSD affected you? The soldier, seen from the back, facing a Vietnamese woman hugging a baby, with a half-naked boy by her side? A year later Huet was seriously wounded and was treated by medics until evacuated. The young private had accidentally fallen victim to a friendly napalm blast and went up in flames. Aug. 18 (UPI) -- Joseph Galloway, a former United Press International war correspondent whose book about the Battle of Ia Drang in Vietnam was made into a Hollywood movie, died Wednesday in a . We had a strategy of peoples war. I thought. Did anyone, a mentor or a family member, give you any advice about adjusting to a war zone? Joining us would be the Day One crew, including anchor Forrest Sawyer and producer Terry Wrong. On that day, There were 30 or 40 photographers boarded on a flat-bed, including TV. ======================== The photo didnt win any prizes, might not even been published, but as a flash forward it represents every soldier who returns from any war after the battles were history, guns silenced and the odds of getting killed beaten. Ia Drang Valley Incident. You have remained good friends with several journalists from your days in war zones. This was 1965 and we had never heard of Post-Traumatic Stress. In other words, every year reaching out far into the future there were more babies born in the north than NVA we were killing in the south, so each year a new crop of draftees arrived as replacements for the dead. He took along a platoon of mortars that belonged to Captain Ted Danielsens Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry, which had been sent with Stockton as possible reinforcements if needed. Fifty years ago this week, a young UPI correspondent named Joe Galloway talked his way onto an Army helicopter headed for the Ia Drang Valley, in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. I could feel those bones in the palms of my hands. In November 1965, Galloway embedded with the 1st Calvary Division in the first major battle of the Vietnam War the battle of the Ia Drang. Still images rarely give straightforward answers but they do offer illuminating clues for those who take the time to delve into them. After all we talked about our experiences among ourselves. For us, the war looked like it was about to be over. (recommend up to 74 battalions by end-66: total to approx. The vietnam war Pictures That Moved Them Most. Later artillery and napalm airstrikes were called in, but they often fell on enemies and friends alike. As long as even one of us remembers them our friends are not dead. Are there not always two sides to a coin? And at least one psychiatrist treating war veterans has used it in his practice. I think that term did not come into being until sometime after 1968. The joyousness of the reunion and the coming together of the family as a visual is outstanding because it was the end of the war. I was born three weeks before Pearl Harbor. Joseph Lee Galloway (November 13, 1941 - August 18, 2021) was an American newspaper correspondent and columnist. When the ambush was sprung, the American artillery wreaked havoc on the North Vietnamese plan and the 33rd Regiment. - This film is about the First Cavalry Division in Vietnam. Based on the book We Were Soldiers Once and Young (1992) by Lieutenant General (Ret.) Date: 10/14/2003 1:27:19 PM Pacific Standard time They arrived in the nick of time as the next PAVN assault began. He told the dozens of reporters who had assembled that there was no ambush of the Americans at Albany. Second Lieutenant Walter Marm (later Colonel) received the Medal of Honor on February 15, 1967 for his actions during the 3-day battle at LZ X-Ray. As we made a run for it, the General grabbed me by the arm, and said, Tell your people that you have seen how the 18th division knows how to fight and die. ++"We treated him for burns. In short, the battle at LZ X-Ray, 14-16 November 1965, constituted the major turning point in my life. In 2015, Galloway talked about when he arrived in Vietnam in early 1965, "I knew nothing about war except what I had learned from watching John Wayne movies." The detail not given was that Gunny Purdies commanding officer had just been killed on that hill, the radio operator cut in half. Neither did the article mention that the CO had called in artillery fire on his own position. The next time I saw Vince was on that terrible bloody ground in the la Drang. ignorance. It was too much. I got three frames off, and the moment was gone. The fighting quickly disintegrated into hand-to-hand combat, and men were dying all around. We Were Soldiers Once.And Young: Ia Drang The Battle That Changed the War in V. Sponsored. 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. They were not. Some ate; some smoked; some fell asleep right there. When you were a young journalist heading off to Vietnam, did you have any fears? Over the years, Howard would often tell this story and recall sadly that Capa had died covering his assignment. 121. 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. Forty-five years ago this fall, in November of 1965, a lone, understrength battalion of the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) ventured where no forcenot the French, not the South Vietnamese army, not the newly arrived American combat troopshad ever gone: Deep into an enemy sanctuary in the forested jungles of a plateau in the Central Highlands where the Drang River flowed into Cambodia and, ultimately, into the Mekong River that returned to Vietnam far to the south. For the Americans, Ia Drang proved the concept of airmobile infantry warfare. Other locals and American military are nearby; the anxious glance of the child indicates as much. I helped putting the fire out and I just gave him some saline solution. Our goal was to win the war.. His legs were paralyzed and VA got him a car with hand controls. In 2001 as the Vice President of Security for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, he lost his life supervising the evacuation of the World Trade Center Tower 2. Together, these actions at the landing Page 4/18 February, 28 2023 Sketching Light By Joe Mcnally I assured them that theirs was a normal reaction to the horrors of war and urged them to get some help. I shot a photo of him as he was walking toward the chopper and he was cursing everyone, me included. The man was a brave SOB, having made a name for himself at the Battle of Ia Drang, November 14-18, 1965 (I wrote about the battle here). 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.) The series features a wide range of war images, both famous and forgotten. There were no Americans captured and only four North Vietnamese prisoners takenall at X-ray and none at Albany. We Were Soldiers Once.And Young: The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam di L. Galloway, Joseph and Moore, Harold G e una grande selezione di libri, arte e articoli da collezione disponibile su AbeBooks.it. When the ambush was sprung at Albany, an intelligence sergeant shot and killed the two North Vietnamese prisoners with a .45-caliber pistol. Robert Pledge, co-founder of Contact Press Images: Who is the enemy here? 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.. McDade and his command group went forward so the battalion commander could personally put questions to the prisoners through the interpreter. My first tour in Vietnam lasted 16 months. For his extraordinary heroism and gallantry in action around Landing Zone X-Ray, Moore received the Distinguished Service Cross. Excerpted from a 2013 interview with Art Greenspon by Peter van Agtmael, a Magnum photographer who has covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: As the first medevac chopper hovered overhead I saw the First Sergeant with his arms in the air. 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. Young guerrillas wear grenades at their belts, preparing to fight the encroaching Viet Minh forces in the Red River Delta, northern Vietnam, 1954. 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. Each of us was terribly afraid that the other was going to be killed in the next minutes. "It was bad. A photo of a young widow sprawled atop the grave of her soldier husband at Arlington Cemetery leaves me choked with grief and sobbing aloud. Galloway brandishes a Swedish K submachinegun at Danang in August 1965. day battle. And. We have but two options, it seems to me. In 1998, Galloway became the only American civilian to receive the Bronze Star Medal with "V" for heroism during the Vietnam War. In the days before embeds this generations enforced melding of photographer and military unit there was a certain sense of freedom we owned as photographers, being able to go directly to where the story was. The enemy commander, Lt. Col. Nguyen Hu An, had kept one of the battalions of the 66th Regiment in reserve, and unbeknownst to the Americans that battalion was taking a lunch break just off the trail. How has your own PTSD affected you? Phase I forces, almost all in place by the end of this year, involve 130 South Vietnamese, 9 Korean, 1 Australian and 34 U.S. combat battalions (approximately 220,000 Americans). I was 23 years old when I arrived in Vietnam in April 1965. choppers the engineers they got burned," he said with eyes distant. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam at the best online prices at eBay! As Jon Meacham describes in this weeks issue of TIME, the pictures from that period can help illuminate the demons of Vietnam. Major Basil Plumley a legend in the airborne and infantry communities wore unauthorized combat and valor awards that exaggerated the wartime achievements that made him famous. In the fairly rendered background a soldier, probably wounded, is seen surrounded by comrades who, somehow, form an awkward Piet. He is the only reporter who covered the war recognized for heroism in combat. So I just moved on with my life and career. I really cant speak for the general public and what they know or dont know about PTSD. See more ideas about vietnam war, vietnam, vietnam war photos. 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