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Honor & Courage
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VI.
Eagle Flight to Landing
Zone Hereford A Company and its Eagle Flight to Landing Zone
(LZ) Hereford, arrive too late to save a mortar platoon
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Cavalry and I Don't Mean
Horses The 11th Air Assault Division forms the 1st Cavalry Division
(Airmobile), deploys and arrives in Vietnam, and establishes
itself at Base Camp Radcliff An Khe. (May-October 1965)
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VII.
Death in a Small Place Specialist John Spranza, RTO for Charlie Company mortars,
1st Battalion (Airborne), 12th Cavalry, is only one of four
survivors of the battle at LZ Hereford. (May 1966)
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1st Brigade, First to
Fight!
The battles of Pleiku, Plei Me, and specifically the events of
November 4, 1965, regarding A Company 2/8th establish
the historical fact that the 1st Airborne Brigade was the first
Cavalry unit to engage major North Vietnamese Army
(NVA) units. (October to November 1965)
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VIII.
Changing
of the Guard, Pony Soldier Summer>
Troopers who arrive on the United States Navy Ship
(USNS) Geiger begin rotating home, and many stateside
infantry replacements start arriving, most of whom are
not airborne. Only about 50 of the”old timer” officers and
men are left. (June to September 1966)
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Don's Homecoming
A family is notified stateside of the loss of its 7th Cavalry son
and brother during the battle of Landing Zone (LZ) Albany and
his return home for burial at Arlington National Cemetery
in Washington, D.C. (November to December 1965)
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IX.
Airborne
Warriors for the Working Day A collection of remembrances of the gear A Company
soldiers humped, the diseases they contracted, the weather
they fought, and the food they ate. (Christmas Day 1966)
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Base Camp and Beyond
Alpha Company returns to Camp Radcliff after the
Pleiku Campaign, visits the Mang Yang Pass, patrols the
Greenline, makes the pay day jump, first replacements,
captures a Viet Cong machine gun, and enjoys a company
barbecue and New Year's Eve party.
(November 1965 to January 1966)
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X.
Epilogue
and Acknowledgements
Photos of the Airborne warriors today.
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Operation Masher/White
Wing: First Big Campaign of 1966
Men of the 1st Air Cavalry Division moved to the field in
January 1966 and began the New Year launching the largest
operation thus far in the Vietnam War.
(January to March 1966)
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Appendix I
- IV and Index Company
Rosters, Daily Staff Journals, After Action Reports, Charlie Black article
and Index. |
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