On 14 November 1965 helicopters landed Lieutenant Colonel Hal Moore's 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, at Landing Zone X-Ray in the Ia Drang Valley of South Vietnam's Central Highlands, and North Vietnamese regulars attacked almost at once. The fighting there and at nearby LZ Albany was the first major battle between American and North Vietnamese troops.
The Battle of Ia Drang, 1965: the first big clash in Vietnam
14 to 18 November 1965 · 60 years ago
As the United States committed ground troops to Vietnam in 1965, it brought a new concept: airmobile warfare, moving infantry by helicopter to strike deep and fast. The 1st Cavalry Division was sent into the Ia Drang Valley to find and fight the North Vietnamese regulars operating there.
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14 November 1659 · 366 years ago
Danish, Brandenburg and Polish troops, backed by Michiel de Ruyter's Dutch fleet, attacked the Swedish army of Philip of Sulzbach on Funen in the Dano-Swedish War of 1658-1660. The Swedes were routed in one of Denmark's most important victories of that war.
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