Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/02

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Subject: RE: [Leica] MOVIE LEICA SIGHTING - 'We Were Soldiers"
From: Marc James Small <msmall@infi.net>
Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 00:55:56 -0500
References: <MBBBJHIBKCKEAEOKKBPOAENECLAA.bdcolen@earthlink.net>

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



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