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* 1965 – Vietnam War: The Battle of the Ia Drang begins – the first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces.
* November 14 – Vietnam WarBattle of the Ia Drang: In the Ia Drang Valley of the Central Highlands in Vietnam, the first major engagement of the war between regular United States and North Vietnamese forces begins.
During this period, his son, future ABC newsman, Jack Smith ( April 25, 1945 — April 7, 2004 ), was serving with the U. S. Army 7th Cavalry Regiment in South Vietnam and fought at the Battle of Ia Drang.
One of the first uses of airborne radio relay was by the United States Army's 1st Cavalry Division in the Battle of Ia Drang during the Vietnam War, which employed the technique to improve communications with commanders at headquarters.
He is best known as the Lieutenant Colonel in command of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, at the Battle of Ia Drang, in 1965 during the Vietnam War ; today, he is the " honorary colonel " of the Regiment.
Lieutenant Colonel Moore then took his unit, the 1st Battalion, 7th U. S. Cavalry ( then in the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division ) to South Vietnam, and led it in the famous Battle of Ia Drang.
Moore was known as " Yellow Hair " to his troops at the battle at Ia Drang, for his blond hair, and as a tongue-in-cheek homage referencing George Armstrong Custer, commander of the same unit ( 7th Cavalry ) at the Battle of the Little Bighorn just under a century before.
One of the featured exhibits of the museum is a life-size diorama of LZ X-Ray from the Battle of Ia Drang.
The book was adapted into the 2002 film We Were Soldiers, which was filmed at Forts Benning and Hunter Liggett, depicting Moore's command of 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, at Fort Benning and in the Battle of Ia Drang.
He is most famous for his actions as a Sergeant-Major of the US Army's 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, at the Battle of Ia Drang ( 1965 ).
It is mostly known for the Battle of Ia Drang that took place in November 1965 during the Vietnam War.
It is first-person shooter ( FPS ) games and features a large variety of maps based on historical settings, such as the Ho Chi Minh Trail, Battle of Hue, Ia Drang Valley, Operation Flaming Dart, The Battle of Khe Sanh and Fall of Saigon.
* November 14 – 18-The Battle of Ia Drang in South Vietnam is the culmination of the Ia Drang Valley campaign.
His portrayal of then-Major Bruce P. Crandall in 2002's We Were Soldiers brought public attention to Crandall's heroism during the 1965 Battle of Ia Drang.
Incredibly, none of this bothered Worchester until he discovered that his local bartender ( the only person who greeted him home with a friendly tone of voice ) had lost his son in the 1965 Battle of Ia Drang Valley and was sent home in " a rubber bag with ' members missing ' labeled on it.
The battle was documented in the CBS special report Battle of Ia Drang Valley by Morley Safer and the critically acclaimed book We Were Soldiers Once … And Young by Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway.
Although many notable decorations have been awarded to veterans of the Battle of Ia Drang, in his book We Were Soldiers Once ... And Young, Harold Moore writes:
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It is known today as the Battle of Ia Drang Valley, and is considered to be the first large scale helicopter air assault.
This particular airframe commemorates Spitfire Mk Ia, P9428, EB-R (' R for Robin '), and its pilot, Sqn Ldr Hilary R. L. ' Robin ' Hood DFC, the Squadron Commanding Officer, who was killed during the Battle of Britain.

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* 1922 – Battle of Dumlupinar: the final battle in the Greek-Turkish War (" Turkish War of Independence ").
* Caroline Irene (" Carreen ") O ' Hara: Scarlett's youngest sister, who also became sickened by typhoid during the Battle of Atlanta.
* Susan Elinor (" Suellen ") O ' Hara: Scarlett's middle sister, who became sickened by typhoid during the Battle of Atlanta.
* End of the Battle ... Not the End of the War (" Diverse Reports ", 1985 )
* The second dates to the Battle of Flodden in 1513 (" a landmark in the history of archery, as the last battle on English soil to be fought with the longbow as the principal weapon ...").
He was wounded in action during the WWII Battle of Saipan, in the assault on Mount Tapochau, during which most of his company (" I " Company, 24th Marines, 4th Marine Division ) were killed.
Little Turtle | Mishikinakwa (" Little Turtle ")'s forces defeated an American force of nearly 1000 U. S Army soldiers and other casualties at the St. Clair's Defeat | Battle of the Wabash in 1791.
* The Case of the Mukkinese Battle Horn ( 1956 ), a Goon-like 2-reel comedy (" Mukkinese " = " mucky knees ").
The Øyskjeggs (" Island Beardies ") sailed for Norway but were beaten in the Battle of Florvåg near Bergen.
The new album is heavily collaborated, with the likes of Klaxons (" All Rights Reversed "), Midlake (" The Pills Won't Help You Now "), Ali Love (" Do It Again "), and Willy Mason (" Battle Scars ").
The account of the battle Carmen de Hastingae Proelio (" Song of the Battle of Hastings "), said to have been written shortly after the battle by Guy, Bishop of Amiens, says that Harold was killed by four knights, probably including Duke William, and his body brutally dismembered.
The slaughter of Christians at the Battle of the River Garonne was evidently horrific ; the Mozarabic Chronicle of 754 commented, "", (" God alone knows the number of the slain ").
Immediately after their victory, Abu al -' Abbas as-Saffah sent his forces to North Africa and Central Asia, where his forces fought against Tang expansion during the Battle of Talas ( the Abbasids were known to their opponents as the: " Black robed Tazi " (" Tazi ", Chinese: 大食 is borrowed from Persian.
* Pitikwahanapiwiyin ( Pîhtokahânapiwiyin-‘ Poundmaker ’, Chief of the River Cree, born about 1842 in the North Battleford Region in Saskatchewan ; son of Sikakwayan (‘ Skunk Skin ’), an shaman of the Assiniboine and a Franco-Canadian Métisse, the sister of Chief Mistāwasis (" Big Child "), Chief of a band consisting of Plains River Cree ( Sīpīwininiwak-paskwāwiyiniwak ), Woods River Cree (‘ Sīpīwininiwak-sakāwiyiniwak ’), Western Woodland Cree ( Sakāwiyiniwak ) and Nakoda ( Stoney ), was adopted in 1873 by the Siksika chief Crowfoot as son, lived several years by the Blackfeet-name Makoyi-koh-kin (‘ Wolf Thin Legs ’) under the Siksika, returned to the Cree, became counselor of the Chief Pihew-kamihkosit (‘ Red Pheasant ’), was involved in the negotiations for the Treaty 6 in 1876 and went in 1879 in the Poundmaker reservation, later he participated in the siege of Battleford and the Battle of Cut Knife, died 4 July 1886 in Blackfoot Crossing, Alberta )
Battle Angel Alita tells the story of Alita (" Gally " in the original Japanese version ), an amnesiac female cyborg.
The Camerino dei Confirmati (" Chamber of the Confirmed ") houses one of the symbols of the city, the Secchia Rapita, a bucket kept in memory of the victorious Battle of Zappolino ( 1325 ) against Bologna.
The resulting Battle of Gaza leads to a triumph for Ptolemy and Seleucus over Antigonus ' son, Demetrius Poliorcetes (" sieger of cities "), who is captured but immediately released.
The earliest mention of Leuven (" Loven ") is from 891 when a Viking army was defeated by the Frankish king Arnulf of Carinthia ( see: Battle of Leuven ).
However, in June 1340, in the bitterly-fought Battle of Sluys (" l ' Ecluse "), the English attacked the port and captured or destroyed the ships there, ending the threat of an invasion.
Hurst also played the character in two guest appearances on Xena: Warrior Princess (" Prometheus " and " The Quest "), and voiced the character in the animated film Hercules and Xena – The Animated Movie: The Battle for Mount Olympus.
In the opening hours of the Battle of Narvik, the old coastal defence ships (" panserskip ") and, both built before 1905 and hopelessly obsolete, attempted to put up a fight against the invading German warships ; both were torpedoed and sunk.
In 312, Ptolemy and Seleucus, the fugitive satrap of Babylonia, both invaded Syria, and defeated Demetrius Poliorcetes (" besieger of cities "), the son of Antigonus, in the Battle of Gaza.

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