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Article: Bravery beyond the call of duty. (coverage of the 1965 Ia Drang Valley battle in Vietnam omitted mention that journalist saved an injured soldier; journalist Joseph L. Galloway receives a Bronze Star Medal for his actions in 1998)(Brief Article)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- May 11, 1998
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Many members of the U.S. 7th Cavalry battalion that landed via helicopter in Vietnam's Ia Drang Valley on Nov. 14, 1965, were expecting "a walk in the sun." The enemy force they were hunting, the men figured, probably would not be there.
The men figured wrong. The choppers deposited 457 Americans amid more than 3,000 North Vietnamese Army regulars. Their fight--the first major American battle of the Vietnam War--would rage for three days and two nights. On the initial night, Joseph L. Galloway, then a 24-year-old correspondent for United Press International, hitched a helicopter ride to the battlefield.
A quarter century later, Galloway returned to Ia Drang ...