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 ...

The Battle of Ia Drang, America's first major combat operation in Vietnam, began on this day in 1965. Retired Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore, who now lives in Auburn, was a lieutenant colonel and led 450 ...

FORT BENNING, Ga., (Nov.18 2015) -- We recently honored this country's men and women who served this great nation on Veterans Day. The Battle of Ia Drang in Vietnam, fought Nov. 14-18, 1965, is a well ...

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 ...

FORT BENNING, Ga., (July 15, 2015) --Bud Alley, a Vietnam veteran of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, recently wrote a book titled The Ghosts of the Green Grass, which tells the story of the ...

Fifty years ago, Joe Galloway was covering – and participating in – the first major battle involving U.S. forces in the Vietnam War. Remembering The Battle Of Ia Drang On November 14, 1965, the ...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) - The men of the 7th Cavalry Regiment who fought alongside LT. General Hal Moore are together for their 57th reunion of the Battle of IA Drang Valley during the Vietnam War.

In 1993, Tony Nadal returned to Vietnam and met a former enemy colonel who would have gladly killed him in 1965, when fighting raged in and around Landing Zone X-Ray in the Ia Drang Valley. But this ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam – On the eve of ...

Few reporters have done more to shape the way we remember the Vietnam War than Joe Galloway. He was present at the 1965 Battle of Ia Drang, embedded with the 7th Cavalry Regiment, where he rescued a ...

On November 14, 1965, the opening shots were fired in the first major battle involving American forces in the Vietnam War. The U.S. soldiers landed by helicopter in the central highlands of South ...