COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — Friday morning a, wearing a Harris County ball cap, stood out at a reunion of soldiers who fought in the famed 1965 Vietnam battle in the Ia Drang valley. Jamie Creed didn’t ...

Fifty years ago today, November 14, 1965, the first wave of troopers from a battalion of the First Cavalry Division, an elite unit of the U.S. Army that had turned in its horses for helicopters and an ...

Retired Army Lt. Col. Bruce P. Crandall wears a hearing aid and speaks haltingly at times. But when asked about a harrowing 1965 battle in South Vietnam's central highlands, his voice resounds with a ...

FORT BENNING, Ga. (May 2, 2012) -- A gathering of heroes and legends took place Saturday in Columbus. The leaders and Soldiers who fought in the Battle of Ia Drang Valley, the U.S. military's first ...

FORT BENNING, Ga., (Nov.18 2015) -- We recently honored this country's men and women who served this great nation on Veterans Day. The Battle of Ia Drang in Vietnam, fought Nov. 14-18, 1965, is a well ...

The Battle of Ia Drang, America's first major combat operation in Vietnam, began on this day in 1965. Retired Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore, who now lives in Auburn, was a lieutenant colonel and led 450 ...