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Synopsis. A French unit is on patrol in Vietnam in 1954, during the final year of the First Indochina War. The unit is suddenly ambushed by North Vietnamese Army forces, who kill the officers. Although the French soldiers kill many Viet Minh, the unit is soon overrun.
We Were Soldiers is a 2002 American war film written and directed by Randall Wallace and starring Mel Gibson. Based on the book We Were Soldiers Once… and Young (1992) by Lieutenant General (Ret.) Hal Moore and reporter Joseph L. Galloway, it dramatizes the Battle of Ia Drang on November 14, 1965.
Mar 1, 2002 · There you have the two emotional poles of "We Were Soldiers," the story of the first major land battle in the Vietnam War, late in 1965. Moore (Mel Gibson) is a family man, and a Harvard graduate who studies international relations. Plumley (Sam Elliott) is an Army lifer, hard, brave, unsentimental.
Mar 1, 2002 · With Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe, Greg Kinnear, Sam Elliott. The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War, and the soldiers on both sides that fought it, while their wives wait nervously and anxiously at home for the good news or the bad news.
Mar 1, 2002 · Synopsis Based upon the best-selling book "We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young" by Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore (Ret.) and journalist Joseph L. Galloway, this compelling war drama...
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Nov 20, 2023 · ‘We Were Soldiers’: Book Summary. The book ‘We Were Soldiers Once… And Young’ is a first-hand account of the Battle of Ia Drang, the first major battle between the US Army and the North Vietnamese Army.
Mar 1, 2002 · Its depiction of the engagement between 400 American and 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers in the Ia Drang Valley in November 1965 is brutal, relentless, and savage in the extreme; this intense and...
