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James Carabatsos is known for Heartbreak Ridge (1986), Hamburger Hill (1987) and No Mercy (1986).
James Carabatsos is known for Heartbreak Ridge (1986), Hamburger Hill (1987) and No Mercy (1986).
- Writer, Producer
- 2 min
- Hamburger Hill
- Operation Apache Snow
- “Screaming Eagles”
- Battle of Hamburger Hill
- An Un-Victorious Victory
- The Controversial Legacy of The Battle of Hamburger Hill
Written by James Carabatsos and directed by John Irvin, Hamburger Hill follows the actions of the 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Divisionand five new recruits. These “Screaming Eagles” are given a crash course on everything from fighting to hygiene before being thrust into an assault against Hill 937, which would grow to bec...
The real-life Battle of Hamburger Hill was just a small part of Operation Apache Snow. It was designed to pressure the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and Viet Congin the A Sầu Valley and prevent them from moving supplies from Laos. The assault beganon May 10, 1969, with troops from the 101st Airborne’s 187th, 501st and 506th Infantry Regiments, under ...
True to Hamburger Hill, it was the paratroopers of the 187th who made up the bulk of the battle force and also took the brunt of the casualties. When Operation Apache Snow was launched, the Americans led a valiant attack, but the North Vietnamese 29th Regiment took the high ground. They moved to a pre-established bunker on Dong Ap Bia, known to the...
Along with the 101st Airborne and support troops trying to take Hill 937, the position was bombarded by artillery and airstrikes. Reports later said it soon looked like the battlefields of World War I, as the US Army dropped thirty-one thousand 20 mm shells, 513 tons of tear gas, 142 tons of napalmand 1,000 bombs. This had little-to-no effect on th...
Finally, on May 20, 1969, Gen. Zais deployed further reinforcements for the men on Hill 937, including several South Vietnamese battalions; the 1st Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment; and the 2nd Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment. As it turns out, this was the push they needed, whether as a morale boost or just added numbers, a...
Given the intensity of the fighting, the Battle of Hamburger Hill was heavily covered by journalists, who spread its nickname. When asked in an interview what the fighting was like, Sgt. James Spears replied, “Have you ever been inside a hamburger machine? We just got cut to pieces by extremely accurate machinegun fire.” This, compounded by a nod t...
Screenwriter James Carabatsos, a Vietnam veteran of the 1st Cavalry Division, was inspired by an account of American paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division using a pay telephone and a credit card to call in fire support during the invasion of Grenada, and fashioned a script of a Korean War veteran career Army non-commissioned officer ...
Feb 9, 1985 · Carabatsos, 39, could prove one of the first Vietnam veterans now working as a Hollywood scriptwriter to get his vision of the war into movie houses across the nation.
Writer and co-producer James Carabatsos had served with the 1st Cavalry Division in 1968–69 and spent five years interviewing soldiers involved in the combat there and researching the Battle of Hamburger Hill.
Everything felt very real, mainly because the filmmakers—including the screenwriter and co-producer Jim Carabatsos, who served in Vietnam—got the official blessing of the Pentagon and all the hardware was real.
