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Risking serious injury due to unexploded bombs and ordnance "War Stories Investigates" journeyed to the top of Hamburger Hill. We traveled over 8,000 miles and, in doing so, "War Stories" became ...
On Wednesday, Vestron Video will premiere ”Hamburger Hill” (rated R, $89.98). It`s the true story of the Vietnam War events that began on May 11, 1969, when […] Skip to content ...
Hamburger Hill had been the kind of extended battle that U.S. military commanders ... in which a great number of soldiers on both sides died fighting over terrain that had no real strategic ...
The battle for Hill 937 was kind of a high-water mark of U.S. operations in Vietnam. At the time, there were more than 500,000 U.S. troops on the ground, and this was a rare moment when the North ...
When Vietnam films flooded the market following the mammoth mid-‘80s success of "Platoon," "Hamburger Hill" was lost in the shuffle. The gritty and sporadically powerful ensemble piece is now ...
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. - Robert L. Richardson described himself as a 19-year-old kid when he first set foot in Vietnam in 1969. Just one year later, he left there a man.
Forty-three years ago today, Soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, started fighting the Battle of Hamburger Hill. Pvt. Dan Cochran was one ...
On military maps it was known as Hill 937 in reference to its height in meters. To the locals it was known as Dong Ap Bia. To history it is known as Hamburger Hill.
But the battle for Hamburger Hill, as G.I.s had christened Ap Bia while taking casualties of 84 dead and 480 wounded, continued to be refought far from A Shau. On one side were the critics of the ...