Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! This 1965 CBS News special report anchored by Morley Safer looks at a battle in Vietnam that began on October 19, 1965, and lasted for five weeks.

and Young," coauthors Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway describe the first moments of the battle of Ia Drang in 1965, which set the tone of the war in Vietnam and even changed the ...

19, 1966, for his heroic actions leading a platoon into combat against the North Vietnamese army during the battle of Ia Drang in Vietnam, UT said in a release. According to the release ...