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1. On May 16, an Associated
Press correspondent learned of
the ongoing battle on Hill
937, travelled to the area and
interviewed Major General
Melvin Zais, in particular
asking why infantry rather
than firepower was used as the
primary offensive tool on Hill
937. More reporters followed
to cover the battle, and the
term "Hamburger Hill" became
widely used. Who was the
correspondent?

2. The 3rd Brigade launched
its four-battalion attack at
10:00 on May 20, including two
companies of the 3/187th
reinforced by Alpha Company
2/506th. The attack was
preceded by two hours of close
air support and ninety minutes
of artillery prep fires. The
battalions attacked
simultaneously, and by 12:00
elements of the 3/187th
reached the crest, beginning a
reduction of bunkers that
continued through most of the
afternoon. Some PAVN units
were able to withdraw into
Laos. When was Hamburger
Hill secured?

3. The 101st Airborne Division
eventually committed five
infantry battalions, about
1,800 men, and ten batteries
of artillery. U.S. losses
during the ten-day battle
included 421 wounded. What was
the Killed in Action total?


4. How many Huey helicopters
could land at LZ X-Ray?

5. True or False, at 10:48 on
November 14, the first
elements of Bravo Company of
the 1st Battalion 7th Cavalry
touched down at LZ X-Ray,
following around 30 minutes of
bombardment via artillery,
aerial rockets, and
air strikes.

6. The second lift of the
battalion arrived, with the
rest of Bravo Company and one
platoon of Alpha Company,
commanded by Captain Tony
Nadal. What was the time?


7. True or False, Lieutenant
Al Devney's platoon led
approximately 100 yards west
of the creek bed, with
Lieutenant Henry Herrick's
men to his rear and right
flank. Just before 13:00,
Devney's platoon was
heavily assaulted on both
flanks by the North
Vietnamese, taking casualties
and becoming pinned down in
the process. It was around
this point that Herrick
radioed in that his men were
taking fire from their right
flank, and that he was
pursuing a squad of communist
forces in that direction.


8. With Herrick's platoon cut
off and surrounded, the rest
of the battalion fought to
maintain a perimeter. At
13:32, a company under Captain
Bob Edwards arrived, taking up
positions along the south and
southwest facing the mountain.
What was the company?

9. At around 13:45, through
his Operations Officer flying
above the battlefield (Captain
Matt Dillon), 1st Battalion
7th Cavalry commander called
in air strikes, artillery, and
aerial rocket artillery on the
mountain to prevent the North
Vietnamese from advancing on
the battalion's position. What
was the time?

10. While medical evacuation
helicopters (medevacs) were
supposed to transport the
battalion's growing
casualties, only two were
evacuated by medevacs before
the pilots called off their
mission under intense fire
from the PAVN. Casualties
were loaded onto the assault
Hueys (lifting the battalion's
forces to X-Ray), whose pilots
carried load after load of
wounded from the battlefield.
The Battalion intelligence
officer (who had been wounded)
was fatally hit when helping
his wounded comrade Ray
Lefebvre aboard a Huey. Who
was the intel officer?

11. The last of the battalion
arrived, and Lieutenant Larry
Litton assumed command of
Delta. It was during this lift
that one Huey, having
approached the LZ too high,
crash-landed on the outskirts
of the perimeter near the
command post (those on board
were quickly rescued by the
battalion). What was the time
of their arrival?

12. The second push had
advanced just over 75 yards
toward the lost platoon's
position before reaching a
stalemate with the PAVN. At
one point, the PAVN were
firing on Alpha's 1st Platoon
(which was leading the advance
and was at risk of becoming
separated from the battalion)
with an American M-60 machine
gun that had been taken off a
dead gunner of Herrick's
platoon. The stalemate lasted
before Nadal and Herren
requested permission to
withdraw back to X-Ray (to
which Moore agreed). How long
did the stalemate last?

13. Lead elements of Bravo
Company of the 2nd Battalion
7th Cavalry (the "sister
battalion" of the 1st/7th)
arrived at LZ X-Ray to
reinforce the embattled
battalion. By nightfall, the
battle had taken a heavy toll
on 1st/7th. Bravo had taken 47
casualties (including one
officer), and Alpha had taken
34 casualties (including three
officers). Charlie Company was
comparatively healthy (having
taken only four casualties).
When did 2nd Battalion/7th
Cavalry arrive?

14. True and False, the lost
platoon under Sergeant
Savage's command suffered
three sizable assaults of the
night (one just before
midnight, one at 03:15, and
one at 04:30). The PAVN, using
bugles to signal their forces,
were repelled from the knoll
with artillery, grenade, and
rifle fire. The lost platoon
survived the night without
taking additional casualties.


15. Just before dawn at 06:20,
Lt. Col. Harold G. Moore
ordered his companies to put
out reconnaissance patrols to
probe for Vietnamese forces.
Patrols from Charlie Company's
1st Platoon (under Lieutenant
Neil Kroger) and 2nd Platoon
(under Lieutenant John
Geoghegan) had advanced 150
yards from the perimeter
before coming into contact
with PAVN troops. A firefight
broke out, and the patrols
quickly withdrew to the
perimeter. When did the
firefight begin?

16. Under heavy attack on
three sides, the battalion
fought off repeated waves of
PAVN infantry. It was during
this battle that Specialist
Willard Parish of Charlie
Company, situated on Delta's
lines, earned a medal for
suppressing an intense
Vietnamese assault in his
sector. After expending his
M-60 ammunition, Parish
resorted to his .45 sidearm
to repel PAVN forces that
advanced within 20 yards of
his foxhole. After the battle,
over 100 dead North Vietnamese
troops were discovered around
Parish's position. What was
the medal he earned?

17. As the battle along the
southern line intensified,
Moore ordered the battalion's
forward air controller,
Lieutenant Charlie Hastings,
to transmit the code phrase,
which relayed that an American
combat unit was in danger of
being overrun. In so doing,
Hastings was calling on all
available support aircraft in
the country to come to the
battalion's defense, drawing
on a significant arsenal of
heavy ordnance support. What
was the code phrase?

18. True or False, on Charlie
Company's broken lines, PAVN
troops walked the lines for
several minutes, killing
wounded Americans and
stripping their bodies of
weapons and other items. It
was around this time, at
07:55, that Moore ordered his
lines to throw colored smoke
grenades over the lines to
identify the battalion's
perimeter. Aerial fire support
was then called in on the PAVN
at close range, including
those along Charlie's lines.


19. Shortly after, Lt. Col.
Moore's command post was
subjected to what could have
been a catastrophic friendly
fire incident. Two jets
approached X-Ray, the first
dropping napalm inadvertently
on American lines, the second
approaching the command post
in a similar manner. The
command post was only saved
when, at Moore's urging,
Hastings frantically radioed
for the second jet to change
course. Despite Hastings' best
efforts, several Americans
were wounded and killed by
this airstrike. What were
the jets?

20. At 09:10, the first
elements of Alpha Company of
the 2nd Battalion of the 7th
Cavalry under Captain Joel
Sugdinis arrived at X-Ray.
Sugdinis' forces reinforced
the remains of Charlie
Company's lines. The North
Vietnamese had begun to
withdraw from the battle —
although occasional fire
continued to harass the
battalion. When did the PAVN
begin to withdraw?