Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 06:49 PM 3/2/02 -0700, Tim Atherton wrote: >Here is a review by Dirck ("big hair") Halstead - a great photographer, a >man who will always help you out if he can and UPI Saigon Photo Bureau Chief >at the time > >> The two hour twenty minute film recounts the struggle in November of >> 1965 between four companies of the newly-formed second regiment, 7th >> Cavalry (Airmobile) of the U.S. Army and the 66th Regiment of the >> People's Army of North Vietnam. It is painful when Hollywood doesn't get it right. It is painful when Hollywood does get it right but the reviewer gets it wrong -- especially if the reviewer was in-country when the action described took place. The unit, of course, was the Second BATTALION of the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile). Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +276/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html