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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
from annihilation.
(May 1966)
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| I. 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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| II. 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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| III. 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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| IV. 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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| V. 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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