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July - August 2025

Enduring Vietnam workhorse

- Louis DeFrancesco

ON NOVEMBER 14, 1965, Bell UH-1B helicopters delivered the lead units of the 7th Cavalry Regiment to Landing Zone X-Ray in South Vietnam's Ia Drang Valley. North Vietnam's 33rd Regiment attacked, triggering the first major battle between the U.S. and North Vietnamese armies, immortalized in the book, “We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young” by Lieutenant General Harold “Hal” Moore.

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