Fortunately, the North Vietnamese troops had limited intelligence and were very cautious in commanding. They did not seize the opportunity to take advantage of the emptiness and destroy the entire camp in one fell swoop. After two days of fighting with more than 100 casualties, the first battalion was finally able to leave the battlefield and return to the base with the second battalion that came to rescue the siege. However, on the way, due to the lack of experience of the second battalion commander, he ordered the column that had been dragged to 500 yards in the jungle to stop advancing just to interrogate two prisoners of war. It hit the new force of North Vietnam with its weak firepower, and a battalion was almost wiped out in the fierce battle.
At that time, the first battalion commander and commander Harold Moore and journalist Josephine Galway experienced and documented the battle first-hand. This was also the first major casualty of the U.S. military in the Vietnam battlefield, and it had an extremely significant impact on the change in the U.S. military's attitude towards the Vietnam War in the future. However, this film does not focus on the description of the background of the Vietnam War, but from the eyes of a famous officer and soldier, it shows the courage and spirit of the American soldiers during the war. This is the heroism style of director and screenwriter Randall Wallace and protagonist Mel Gibson. The fearless spirit of facing the god of death and the evocative friendship between the military camps will be the subject of this Vietnam War film adapted from real events.
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