The Battle of Ia Drang (Vietnamese: Trận Ia Đrăng, [iə̯ ɗrăŋ]; in English / ˈ iː ə d r æ ŋ /) was the first major battle between the United States Army and the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), as part of the Pleiku campaign conducted early in the Vietnam War, at the eastern foot of the Chu Pong Massif in the central highlands of ...

Battle of Ia Drang, first major clash between U.S. soldiers and North Vietnamese troops during the Vietnam War. It occurred in the Ia Drang valley, near Vietnam’s border with Cambodia, on November 14–18, 1965.

During the Vietnam War, the United States (U.S.) forces launched a bold mission in the contested region called the Ia Drang Valley.[1] Considered for many as the first major battle during the war between the U.S. Army and the North Vietnamese Army (NVA), both sides showed the importance of tactics, key equipment, and capabilities to overcome an ...

2010年10月18日 · What happened there, in the Ia Drang Valley, 17 miles from the nearest red-dirt road at Plei Me and 37 miles from the provincial capital of Pleiku, sounded alarm bells in the Johnson White House and the Pentagon as they tallied the American losses—a stunning butcher’s bill of 234 men killed and more than 250 wounded in just four days and ...

2020年11月14日 · The Battle of Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam began on November 14, 1965, and saw around 1,000 U.S. Army soldiers of the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) fight for four days with about 2,500 North Vietnamese troops. The four days of fighting formed what became the first major battle between U.S. and North Vietnamese forces of the Vietnam War.

2007年2月26日 · The two-part battle took place between November 14 and November 18, 1965 west of Plei Me, in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam. Lt. Col. Hal Moore’s 1st Battalion, 7th Calvary was ordered to take on an air assault in the Ia …

One of the most significant battles of the Vietnam War, the 14–16 November 1965 battle in the Ia Drang Valley in South Vietnam's central highlands between the U.S. Army's 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) and the 33rd and 66th Regiments of the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) marked a watershed change in the military strategies of both sides.

The Battle of Ia Drang Valley was a significant military engagement that took place in November 1965 during the Vietnam War. Located in the central highlands of South Vietnam, the battle began when North Vietnamese forces aimed to split the country. On November 14, U.S. troops, led by Lieutenant Colonel Harold G. Moore, landed at landing zone X-Ray and encountered a large concentration of ...

2018年11月14日 · Suddenly, 90 Americans found themselves in the Ia Drang Valley, deep in South Vietnam's Central Highlands, a remote Communist base area from the days of the French Indochina War of the late 1940s and early1950s.

2025年2月14日 · The Battle of Ia Drang was the first major conflict between the United States Army and the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) during the Vietnam War. The battle took place from November 14 to 18, 1965, in the Ia Drang Valley of central Vietnam.