Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/03
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Marc- I do not want to get in a huge to-do here - but there were TWO
consecutive battles fought in the Ia Drang in Nov. '65, from, I believe, the
14th through the 17th. The first, at landing zone X-ray, the battle depicted
in the movie, was indeed fought by the 1st battalion of the 7th Cavalry -
Col. Hal Moore's outfit - and Custer's old outfit. The second, at landing
zone Albany, was, as you note, fought by the 2nd of the 7th. So the movie
DID get it right, and, in essence, so did you. For sources, which I know you
demand ;-), I would refer you to "We Were Soldiers Once...And Young" by Hal
Moore and Joseph Galloway.(sp?)
B. D.
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Subject: RE: [Leica] MOVIE LEICA SIGHTING - 'We Were Soldiers"
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!
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