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It was 44 years ago this week, November 14, 1965, that Lieutenant Colonel Hal Moore led his 450-man, 1st Battalion/7th U.S. Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) in an audacious air assault ...
In a departure from the usual naming of Army forts in honor of one military legend, it will now be named for two: Fort Moore will honor both Hal Moore and his wife Julia.
It was 44 years ago this week, November 14, 1965, that Lieutenant Colonel Hal Moore led his 450-man, 1st Battalion/7th U.S. Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) in an audacious air assault ...
The couple rose to prominence after Moore, then a lieutenant colonel, commanded the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry in Vietnam during the 1965 Battle of Ia Drang, the first large-scale confrontation ...
Albert “Billy” Sonnier of Elton was an infantryman assigned to Lieutenant Colonel Hal Moore’s 450-man force at the Battle of Landing Zone X-Ray in South Vietnam where he later died. His heroism was ...