Battle of the Ia Drang/Related Articles

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Air assault [r]: Add brief definition or description
Army of the Republic of Viet Nam [r]: Add brief definition or description
People's Army of Viet Nam [r]: The Communist military forces originally of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (i.e., North Vietnam), and then of the country after it was forcibly reunified in 1975. ^[e]
Military Assistance Command, Vietnam [r]: Headquarters for most U.S. combat and support units assisting the Republic of Vietnam ^[e]
Vietnam War [r]: (1955-1975) war that killed 3.8 million people, where North Vietnam fought U.S. forces and eventually took over South Vietnam, forming a single Communist country, Vietnam. ^[e]

LZ Albany [r]: Add brief definition or description
LZ X-ray [r]: An engagement between U.S. and North Vietnamese forces during the Battle of the Ia Drang, described in We were soldiers once...and young. Both sides took heavy casualties, the U.S. 1/7 Cavalry under Hal Moore and 7/66 PAVN under Nguyen Huu An ^[e]
Plei Me Special Forces Camp [r]: Add brief definition or description

Ambush [r]: Add brief definition or description
Harry Kinnard [r]: Add brief definition or description
Ho Chi Minh trail [r]: A complex of roads and other facilities, from North Vietnam to South Vietnam via Laos and Cambodia, used to infiltrate military forces into the South ^[e]
Joseph Galloway [r]: Add brief definition or description
Luc Luong Dac Biet [r]: Special Forces of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam; a paramilitary organization reporting to the office of President Ngo Dinh Diem before his overthrow, then a combination of a counterpart to United States Army Special Forces and a clandestine human-source intelligence and covert action organization, and eventually a pure counterpart organization. ^[e]
Stanley Larsen [r]: Add brief definition or description
Chu Huy Man [r]: A Senior General of the People's Army of Viet Nam, he was its first division commander, at the Battle of the Ia Drang. He later was a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Vietnam ^[e]
Harold Moore [r]: Add brief definition or description
Pleiku [r]: The capital of Gia Lai Province of Vietnam; headquarters of the II Corps tactical zone during the Vietnam War ^[e]
William Westmoreland [r]: Add brief definition or description
United States Army Special Forces [r]: Add brief definition or description
Vo Nguyen Giap [r]: The most prominent general of the Viet-Minh, the People's Army of Viet Nam, and eventually Defense Minister and Politburo member of North Vietnam ^[e]