Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/03
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Marc - In re-reading what you wrote, and what Dirk Halstead wrote, I
realized that he, rather than the movie, 'got it wrong' to begin with. The
battle depicted in the movie was fought by the 1st of the 7th, as I stated.
He also got something else quite wrong - I believe. In his review he states
that the movie incorporates Galloway's photos of the battle - actually, I
believe that the stills thrown up on the screen at one point are, in fact,
stills shot during the filming of the movie...they sure seem to be of the
actors we've been watching.;-) Also, looking through the book again, there
are only a tiny handful of Galloway photos in the photo section - and they
aren't very good. One has to assume that if he had more and they were
better, they'd be in the book. It's my understanding Galloway was, and has
always been, a reporter. During the Vietnam war he, like most reporters,
carried a camera or cameras with him, and took photos. But as we know, that
does not a photographer make.;-)
B. D.
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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of B. D. Colen
Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 8:38 AM
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Subject: RE: [Leica] MOVIE LEICA SIGHTING - 'We Were Soldiers"
Marc- I do not want to get in a huge to-do here - but there were TWO
consecutive battles fought in the Ia Drang in Nov. '65, from, I believe, the
14th through the 17th. The first, at landing zone X-ray, the battle depicted
in the movie, was indeed fought by the 1st battalion of the 7th Cavalry -
Col. Hal Moore's outfit - and Custer's old outfit. The second, at landing
zone Albany, was, as you note, fought by the 2nd of the 7th. So the movie
DID get it right, and, in essence, so did you. For sources, which I know you
demand ;-), I would refer you to "We Were Soldiers Once...And Young" by Hal
Moore and Joseph Galloway.(sp?)
B. D.
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[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Marc James
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Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 12:56 AM
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Subject: RE: [Leica] MOVIE LEICA SIGHTING - 'We Were Soldiers"
At 06:49 PM 3/2/02 -0700, Tim Atherton wrote:
>Here is a review by Dirck ("big hair") Halstead - a great photographer, a
>man who will always help you out if he can and UPI Saigon Photo Bureau
Chief
>at the time
>
>> The two hour twenty minute film recounts the struggle in November of
>> 1965 between four companies of the newly-formed second regiment, 7th
>> Cavalry (Airmobile) of the U.S. Army and the 66th Regiment of the
>> People's Army of North Vietnam.
It is painful when Hollywood doesn't get it right. It is painful when
Hollywood does get it right but the reviewer gets it wrong -- especially if
the reviewer was in-country when the action described took place.
The unit, of course, was the Second BATTALION of the 7th Cavalry Regiment
of the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile).
Marc
msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +276/343-7315
Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir!
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