In November 1965, 450 soldiers of 1st Battalion, Seventh Cavalry, dug foxholes into a hot, dusty plain near the Cambodian border and prepared to fight.
On the second day of a four-day Battle of the Ia Drang Valley, Pfc. Leo C. Chase Jr., 21, was killed while serving in Charlie Company. The 50 men in his section of the line were swarmed by an estimated 500 enemy soldiers.
Their lines held. In the end, Chase and more than 300 other Seventh Cavalry soldiers were killed. The enemy lost an estimated 3,000 soldiers from the 33rd, 66th, and 320th People's Army regiments and the H-15 Main Force Viet Cong Regiment.
On Friday, November 11, 2005, Chase and the others lost were remembered in a special 40th anniversary ceremony at the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial.
Nearly all of Panel 3-East of the wall is dedicated to the men who died at Ia Drang.
In November 1965, 450 soldiers of 1st Battalion, Seventh Cavalry, dug foxholes into a hot, dusty plain near the Cambodian border and prepared to fight.
On the second day of a four-day Battle of the Ia Drang Valley, Pfc. Leo C. Chase Jr., 21, was killed while serving in Charlie Company. The 50 men in his section of the line were swarmed by an estimated 500 enemy soldiers.
Their lines held. In the end, Chase and more than 300 other Seventh Cavalry soldiers were killed. The enemy lost an estimated 3,000 soldiers from the 33rd, 66th, and 320th People's Army regiments and the H-15 Main Force Viet Cong Regiment.
On Friday, November 11, 2005, Chase and the others lost were remembered in a special 40th anniversary ceremony at the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial.
Nearly all of Panel 3-East of the wall is dedicated to the men who died at Ia Drang.
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