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GEORGE FORREST | 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment (Vietnam War)

Captain George Forrest should have been leery of the whole thing. His unit was protecting convoys on the highway when the word came, a unit was heavily engaged in the Ia Drang Valley. From that point on, nothing seemed right, starting with Chinooks instead of Hueys coming to transport them. They arrived the second day of the battle and bolstered the exhausted troops led by Hal Moore. After a couple of days of fierce fighting, he was told his company was now attached to another unit and was bringing up the rear as they moved out on foot to make way for a B-52 strike. After uttering an expletive, he moved out with the column on the infamous march to LZ Albany, the last big engagement of the epic Battle of the Ia Drang Valley. They were hunkered down after fierce fighting when the call came from "Ghost 4-6." It was a group of wounded men who had pulled themselves together after the ill fated march to LZ Albany and were lost in the dark. He sent a patrol to find them, and in an incredible act of bravery, medic Daniel Torres stayed through the night with them and saved many men. However, Captain Forrest still had to write a gut-wrenching letter to the mother of a missing soldier. It was a classic L-shaped ambush that decimated several companies on the march to LZ Albany. CPT Forrest's company had fared better, but instead of heading to a Thanksgiving dinner like some, they went straight to another battle at Bong Son. He observes that you can go through hell and come out better for it, and his company was stronger for the experience. Decades later, he gained an appreciation for the way the opposition must have felt. (Conducted alongside ‪@VNWar50th‬) WitnessToWar.org Follow us on social media:   / witnesstowar     / witnesstowar   #Army #Vietnam #BattleofIaDrang #IaDrangValley