He was 79. That changed when the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment landed in Vietnam's Northern . Instead, he was riding in the 16th helicopter in a formation. Galloway died Wednesday morning, his wife, Grace Galloway, told The Associated Press, after being hospitalized near their home in Concord, North Carolina. 10 kilowatt generator off it pad on an airbase. November 1965 was the deadliest month yet for the Americans, with 545 killed. The next time I saw Vince was on that terrible bloody ground in the la Drang. (Joe Galloway/UPI) American Riflemen of B Company, 2nd Battalion., 7th Cavalry. The first civilian hired as Chief White House Photographer, Okamoto also became the first one to truly document the Presidency for history. When the war ended in 1975, that man and five others were all that were left alive of the 400. Snipers were up in the trees. Neither we, nor General Dao, had expected the tide of advancing communist forces to so quickly and completely surround the town. Our goal was to win the war.. Even in the eyes of the wars chief architect. It would last for three days and two nights before the North Vietnamese would vanish into the tangle of brush and elephant grass, leaving a large circle of their dead scattered around the American position. We Were Soldiers Once.And Young: Ia Drang The Battle That Changed the W - GOOD. [2] Then they resumed the march. Joe Galloway, Special to the Opelika-Auburn News Nov 14, 2010 0 1 of 2 Pictured is the first prisoner of war captured at Landing Zone Xray on Nov. 14, 1965. Veterans from the Battle of Ia Drang in Vietnam tell stories about author and war correspondent Joe Galloway. In November 1965, Joe Galloway snapped this photo of his childhood friend Vince Cantu during the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley, without realizing who was pictured. I snapped this photo at [the Battle of la Drang], LZ X-Ray, on Nov. 15, 1965. A kid headed out for R&R and a floor stacked with KIAs [killed in action]. I was born three weeks before Pearl Harbor. troops to land would finish off the Viet Cong and I would miss my war. Still images rarely give straightforward answers but they do offer illuminating clues for those who take the time to delve into them. The Marine Corps chief of information took notes and called me later to tell me that the. 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. All he could see was smoke rising through the jungle canopy. 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. The book was later adapted. This photo shows two soldiers watching an area with enemy presence and keeping a low profile. (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. Knowlen radioed Stockton at his temporary base at Duc Co Special Forces Camp and begged for reinforcements as fast as possible. There should be no employer penalty or refusal to hire those who have suffered from PTSD. hasta la vista foe another decade or so At higher levels, both sides claimed victory in the Ia Drang, although those who fought and bled and watched good soldiers die all around them were loath to use so grand a word for something so tragic and terrible that would people their nightmares for a long time, or a lifetime. I could see his finger tightening on the trigger. Photo by Staff Sgt. However, Dao had one more trick up his sleeve, and he called in his personal helicopter behind his headquarters. No detail was too small to bring these American prisoners home. Colonel Crandall broke his back when he crash landed a year later while rescuing 12 trapped soldiers. 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. My older brother Huynh Thanh My, who was killed covering the Vietnam War for the Associated Press, always told me that an image could stop the war and that was his goal. ART. 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. Notable Awards. Its obvious looking at this photograph that he had unfettered access to LBJ and that everyone was comfortable with him being in the room even when the room was the Presidents bedroom. We Were Soldiers is a 2002 American war film written and directed by Randall Wallace and starring Mel Gibson. Joseph Galloway had four tours in Vietnam during his 22 years as a foreign and war correspondent. Photo by war journalist Joseph L. Galloway. I long ago worked out my own way of dealing with PTSD, and that is simply to utilize each day to its maximum potential, working to make this world a better place for our having survived and their having died. Joe Galloway, legendary war correspondent and the only the only civilian to receive the Bronze Star Medal with V for heroism in Vietnam, has died at 79 pic.twitter.com/58rLxyc6dj XVIII Airborne Corps (@18airbornecorps) August 18, 2021 We would often embed ourselves with a platoon or squad, but it was more of a gentlemans agreement than any kind of official policy, based in the main on the idea that we, the photographers, were there to tell their story, and they, the soldiers, realized that unlike them, we didnt have to be there. I was devastated when he died. Was 1/60 fast enough? One of those platoons set up near the trail and began hearing the noise of a large group moving toward it on the trail. 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. David P. Spears, in Vietnams, Central Highlands in 1966. 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. The Battle of Ia Drang In November 1965, then Lt. Col. Moore commanded the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), on an air assault mission to secure the Ia. Why were these uniformed men just giving them away? 153 new photos; 616 job history records for people in our database; 192 education records for people in our database; 915 contact addresses, emails and URLs (LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.) 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. 4.4 of 5 stars. It created a sense of mutual respect that in many ways is challenged by the new embed ethos. My Dad and all my uncles would not tell us kids war stories. On November 3, divisional headquarters ordered Lt. Col. John B. Stockton and his 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, battalion of scouts to focus attention on a particular trail alongside the Ia Drang River close to the Cambodian border. 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. 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. General Knowles called a news conference late on the 18th in a tent at Holloway. with Joe Galloway, and photos from "We Were Soldiers" Find original prints from the Battle of Ia Drang at www.weweresoldiers.net. There is no way to avoid it. I took him to the, CP and ask the doctor to give him something for the terrible pain, but the doctor told that they didnt have. 2023 TIME USA, LLC. This image perfectly shows the seductive and corrupting influence of consumerism on the innocent civilians of Vietnam. Nine regular North Vietnamese regiments (27 infantry battalions) have been infiltrated in the past year, joining the estimated 83 VC battalions in the South. The shot was made one-handed as we carried him out of the fire cone. In 1954 a French unit on patrol during the First Indochina War is ambushed by Viet Minh forces . He had just turned 30. Col. Hoang Phuong, a historian who had spent two months walking south, charged with writing the Lessons Learned report on the coming battles, said that it was during this phase that the retreating PAVN troops began learning what airmobility was all about. art 128 Assault (twice), art 121 LARCENY AND WRONGFUL APPROPRIATION, Hal G. Moore committed crime in Vietnam art 128, Bruce Crandall committed two acts of assault with a deadly weapon, Bruce Crandall assaulted a. But their tour was up in the summer of 1966, and all of them got up and went home, taking all they had learned in the hardest of schools with them. This soldier and I exchanged pleasantries the way you would in the dusty heat. When the ambush was sprung at Albany, an intelligence sergeant shot and killed the two North Vietnamese prisoners with a .45-caliber pistol. It seems to me that journalists are even more reluctant than soldiers to seek treatment for PTSD. Ia Drang - The Battle That Convinced Ho Chi Minh He Could Win. Some experienced a flash of guilt when in a starkly honest millisecond they thought, Glad it was him, not me. That big ugly candid moment was immediately pushed down, but it would creep back every now and then, especially back in the world when they gave a hug to their new child, the one their dead buddy would never have. 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. (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. The UH-1B Huey helicopters buzzed around the rugged area like so many bees, landing American troops among the North Vietnamese, forcing them to split up into ever-smaller groups like coveys of quail pressed hard by the hunters. We arent allowed to forget; we arent supposed to forget. guilty of assault and shall be punished as a court-martial may direct. A siege by a massive North Vietnamese force was about to take place. All of this was merely prelude, setting the stage for the savage mid-November battles at LZs X-ray and Albany. 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). At Jeremiah Purdies packed funeral, there wasnt a man or a woman with a story to tell that didnt mention how, in some way, he had reached out. As long as even one of us remembers them our friends are not dead. Released prisoner of war Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm is greeted by his family at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Calif. Sal VederAP. Date: 10/14/2003 1:27:19 PM Pacific Standard time 10 things you never knew about we were soldiers task. When 1st Cav commander General Kinnard asked for permission to pursue the withdrawing North Vietnamese troops across the border into their sanctuaries inside Cambodia, cables flew between Saigon and Washington. Lt. General Hal Moore: Thank you Joe. is shown front and center, resting on the ground in the soft gray light like a discarded soup bowl or a cleaved skull. However, the American GIs often showed compassion toward the Viet Cong. All 16 Hueys dedicated to lifting and supporting Colonel Moores besieged force in X-ray were shot full of holes, but only two were unable to fly out on their own. The Americans trapped in the kill zone were on their own. life and a North Vietnamese officer was pointing a pistol in my face. This was Philips first glimpse into the efforts of an American army trying to win over hearts and minds. When he got to Vietnam he instantly recognized the same tactic being used there. Hal G. Moore, Lt. General Westmoreland estimates that through 1966 North Vietnam will have the capability to expand its armed forces in order to infiltrate three regiments (nine battalion equivalents, or 4,500 men) a month, and that the VC in South Vietnam can train seven new battalion equivalents a monthtogether adding 16 battalion equivalents a month to the enemy forces. Fred Ritchin, Dean Emeritus of the School at ICP: There is something both surreal and strikingly sad in this photograph by Catherine Leroy. -- Photo by Peter Arnett for The Associated Press. 2. I notice that as the years dwindle down to a precious few I weep a lot more often as the memories cross my mind. exposure,+THROWING THE ROTORS INTO REVERSE as soon as we reached the clearing and braking in the air like a parachute popping open. Sometimes, even in war, that moment can tell a whole story with clarity, but it can be ambiguous too. (recommend up to 74 battalions by end-66: total to approx. along in my generation., Joe Lee Galloway I want to cover it. An empty helmet is its owner still alive? I got a ride back to Ton San Nhut and was downtown in Room 401 of the Caravelle in another 30. The North Vietnamese swiftly deployed along the left side of the column and prepared to attack. He saw everything; he saw the fatigue of the American soldiers, their fear, the prisoners fear. The rest brought in ammunition, grenades, water and medical supplies, and took out the American wounded in scores of sorties. you dont. Photos from the field during the Battle of Ia Drang Valley in 1965. Joe Lee Galloway a Reporter who did not have to go to Vietnam has PTSD?! I really cant speak for the general public and what they know or dont know about PTSD. This image shows troops getting off a UH-1 "Huey" helicopter and entering the battlefield. They were replaced by new draftees, who flowed in as individual replacements and who knew no one around them, and nothing of their outfits history and esprit. 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. Do you think Gold Star family members can suffer from PTSD even though they have never been in a combat zone? He is the only civilian to receive a combat medal form the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. McNamara met with Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge in Saigon and then flew to the 1st Cavalry Division base camp at An Khe, where he was briefed by the Cav commander, Maj. Gen. Harry W.O. 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. Together, these actions at the landing Page 4/18 February, 28 2023 Sketching Light By Joe Mcnally She managed to get accredited by the Associated Press, covered numerous battles, was seriously wounded by shrapnel that would remain in her body, parachuted into combat (small and thin, she was weighed down so as not to be blown away), was taken prisoner by the North Vietnamese (which she used as an opportunity to produce a cover story for LIFE Magazine), and remained obsessed by the war until her death in 2006. The soldiers eyes reveal, and you dont need a caption to explain it, that he most likely experienced hell along the way. At the head of the column, McDade had no idea where most of his men were and was near-incoherent on the radio. I arrived from Miami on the press plane that accompanied the candidate. Jimmy Nakayama. As a young boy did you ever hear any soldier you knew talk about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder/PTSD? Article written by Joe Lee Galloway, the time Bruce Crandall was caught trying to sling load a. Bob McDades 2-7 Battalion plus one company of 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry, would follow Tully part of the way, then break off west and northwest toward another clearing closer to the river dubbed LZ Albany. It was called Hug Them by the Belt Buckleor get in so close to the U.S. troops that the firepower could not be used, for fear of killing and wounding their own. by Joe Galloway Part Four: A Season in Hell. In 1998, Galloway was awarded the Bronze Star with V for Valor for rescuing wounded soldiers under fire at Ia Drang. In November 1965, journalist Joseph L. Galloway hitched a ride on an Army helicopter flying to the Ia Drang Valley, a rugged landscape of red dirt, brown elephant grass and truck-size termite mounds in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam. And. 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. But few people have a better grasp on the role of photography in Vietnam than the photographers themselves, and those who lived and worked alongside them. To honor that commitment, "10%" of the purchase price of every Joe. Learn more about the Battle of Ia Drang at www.lzxray.com. His weapon was on fire," he said. How has your own PTSD affected you? It was the morning. The battle was extremely important because it was the first significant . They were about to make history, conducting the first nighttime heli-borne infantry assault into a very hot landing zone. In the top-secret memo he wrote on his way back to Washington, excerpted below, he coolly predicts the deadly road ahead and the unlikely prospects for victory. I was very young. Both sides had lost interest in taking prisoners. 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