The Battle of IA Drang Valley

INTRODUCTION: In 1962, Secretary of Defense Robert Strange McNamara thought that it is essential that our troops exactly review our tactics and take positive steps to increase the mobility of the onshore war. . Therefore the birth of the Tactical Movement Requirements Committee, often referred to as the "Howes Committee", began the establishment of five aerial attackers. These measures are based on the ability to generate emotions in moderate strength European conflicts. The Army began to shift from fixed-wing aircraft to rotary-wing aircraft, and as the turbine engine evolved, the Army became an indisputable innovator of armed forces.

November 14 - 16 - The battle of Ia Drain Valley will be the first big fight between the US Army and the South Vietnamese Army Fresco (NVA). The US Army Corps of the 1st Cavalry Division jumped directly to the theater by helicopter to cope with the threat of NVA. After landing, the troops landed soon, engaged in intense fire extinguishing activities supported by intense bombardment and B-52 air strikes, and the first use of B-52 was to assist the fighting power. The two day battle ended with NVA retreating to the jungle. 79 Americans lost their lives and 121 people were injured. The NVA loss is estimated to be 2000 years

In the first major battle between the US Army and the North Vietnam, the major Ira Dolan Valley campaign became a catalyst for the US participation in Vietnam. From 23 October 1965 to 26 November 1965, Young gave the reader a rough and ingenious observation about the fight between the war, Vietnam and the Iadoran Valley. Because the sentences are ambiguous and lack artistic literature, people who can actually write this book. Writer, Harold Moore, and a combat traumatic journalist, Joseph Galloway, who commanded the First Battalion of the 7th Battalion, caught a cold, combining extensive research, close interviews and the most important personal memory . Book

In October 1965, the newly arrived US 1st Cavalry Division made one of the biggest fights in the Vietnam War in the Idu Rang Valley, bringing a serious defeat to the North Vietnamese Army. As a result of this fight, North Vietnam and the British Air Force changed tactics. After that, you will fight when you choose either. If possible, we will immediately retreat after attacking soon to avoid the effects of American firepower. The success of the American campaign at Ia Drang Valley convinced Westmoreland that his consumption strategy is the key to America's victory. He ordered the greatest search and destruction of the war in the "iron triangle" of the Communist base of Northeast Saigon. The purpose of this strategy was to find and destroy the headquarters of the army of North Vietnam and North America, but this strategy failed to eliminate the Communist Army in that area.