That changed when the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment landed in Vietnam’s Northern Highlands. So notes an opening line of narration in the Vietnam War drama, “We Were Soldiers,” which tells the story of the Battle of Ia Drang, where American soldiers endured three days of brutal combat.

Is Joe Galloway still alive?

Deceased (1941–2021)
Joseph L. Galloway/Living or Deceased

Are there still POW in Vietnam?

As of 2015, more than 1,600 of those were still “unaccounted-for.” The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) of the U.S. Department of Defense lists 687 U.S. POWs as having returned alive from the Vietnam War. North Vietnam acknowledged that 55 American servicemen and 7 civilians died in captivity.

Was We Were Soldiers filmed in Vietnam?

The area around Fort Hunter Liggett, Calif., doubled for Vietnam in Randall Wallace’s We Were Soldiers.

Who was the reporter in We Were Soldiers?

Joe Galloway
Remembering Vietnam War Correspondent Joe Galloway Galloway, who died Aug. 18, was the only civilian to be awarded the medal of valor in the Vietnam War. He later co-authored We Were Soldiers Once and Young. Originally broadcast in 1992 and 2003.

What does Lt Colonel Moore have to forgive himself for?

Moore expresses to Galloway how he will never forgive himself for having so many of his soldiers killed. He then tells Galloway that he has to let the American people know what happened in the battle. Col. Moore is the last one to step off the battlefield.

What did plumely say to Galloway?

Plumley just yelled, “You can’t take no pictures lying on the ground, sonny!” Later on in the battle Plumley found Galloway and handed him an M-16 and three mags of ammunition. Galloway said he was a photographer – a noncombatant. Plumely told him, “Ain’t no such thing, boy,” and walked away.

Will Basil Plumley ever be remembered for anything?

No, despite all of this amazing shit, what Basil Plumley will forever be remembered for is his actions in Ia Drang Valley during the Vietnam War, when he and a badly-outnumbered force of pinned-down American troops somehow held out despite being ambushed by two full regiments of battle-hardened enemy soldiers.

Did Tom Plumley really get a Silver Star for Ia Drang?

What’s indisputable is that Plumley did earn a Silver Star for courage and valor he showed during the Battle of Ia Drang Valley. In the early-morning hours of Nov. 16, 1965, the command post of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, fell under heavy attack.

Who is Sergeant Major Plumley and what did he do?

“Sergeant Major Plumley, voluntarily and unhesitatingly, rose up in the face of intense small arms and automatic fire, dashed to the burning flare, lifting it with his bare hands out of the box of grenades and threw it. He extinguished the flare with his feet as well as other small fires which it had ignited around the ammo area,” it states.