Fantastic footage, what a battle. Glad we have footage like this, it's important to be a student of history. Respect to all the men who lived/died that day.
That 'YAMA' written on a card at 3:41 is most probably the name of the camera operator. As written in the book 'We Were Soliders Once... And Young' : 'Another unit came into X-Ray about the same, unasked, unheralded, and in fact unnoticed by me. It was Department of the Army Special Photographic Office (DASPO) team of tew sergants, Jack Yamaguchi and Thomas Schiro, armed with their 16mm silent movie cameras. It would be a quarter-century before we saw the eerie color images of ourselves in battle'.
This has to be late that Sunday of the main battle with the choppers and supplies while they're walking around and loading. Also the ammo dumps. The troops you see were left there to pull security on that ammo before it was destroyed or lifted. They were slaughtered on the way to LZ Albany 2.5 miles away two days later. Thanks for sharing.
XM16e1s, it would take a year or so along with a lot of dead Americans and a congressional investigation before the M16/M16a1 was developed and adopted
To be fair the issues were corrected before the A1. The A1 was adopted with no changes from the late model XM16E1’s. And the biggest if not really only culprit in the XM’s was the ammunition, not the rifles. They chose to issue cheaper ammunition with the wrong powder, which was not what was tested. The only change needed to the rifles was going back to the chrome lined bore that the earlier versions had but got dropped for cost…. Well that and dispelling the myth that they didn’t need to be cleaned and spending the few bucks each on cleaning kits. I recommend Larry Vickers Books, Vickers Guide AR-15 Volume 1 and 2. Though Volume 1 is the one that covers all this.
@@Jason-iz6ob I have seen some combat footage where quite a few of the soldiers and Marines were obviously trying to clear a malfunction of some sort in their M16s... appalling...
@@xisotopex Yes. And again most of those issues were resolved by the time the A1’s came along. The problem was bean counters who decided they could save some money by switching to gunpowders that weren’t compatible and hadn’t been tested with the M16 and then decided they could save a little more not issuing cleaning kits and trying to pretend they didn’t even need cleaning. My dad was in Vietnam in 1968. He said he never had a malfunction. And other than one time when a locking lug sheared off a bolt I’ve never had a malfunction that wasn’t magazine related. AR mags were originally intended to be single use disposable.
Fantastic footage, what a battle. Glad we have footage like this, it's important to be a student of history. Respect to all the men who lived/died that day.
"Cant take no pictures down there sonny!" :P
That 'YAMA' written on a card at 3:41 is most probably the name of the camera operator. As written in the book 'We Were Soliders Once... And Young' : 'Another unit came into X-Ray about the same, unasked, unheralded, and in fact unnoticed by me. It was Department of the Army Special Photographic Office (DASPO) team of tew sergants, Jack Yamaguchi and Thomas Schiro, armed with their 16mm silent movie cameras. It would be a quarter-century before we saw the eerie color images of ourselves in battle'.
that is incredibly interesting, thanks for sharing.
This has to be late that Sunday of the main battle with the choppers and supplies while they're walking around and loading. Also the ammo dumps. The troops you see were left there to pull security on that ammo before it was destroyed or lifted. They were slaughtered on the way to LZ Albany 2.5 miles away two days later. Thanks for sharing.
First day i believe they went into X-ray was a Sunday 11-14-1965
Sergeants Jack Yamaguchi and Thomas Schiro landed on the afternoon of the first day.
If you look here 1:35 that's Col. Hal Moore with the blonde hair and radio handset.
It sure is sir👍
CPT Herren on the radio surrounded by his three lieutenants at 1:11, looks like Alan Devney center
“Gentlemen, prepare to defend yourselves”
“What are you? A fuckin weatherman”
“How do you know what kind of a God damn day it is”
Basil Plumley 👌🇺🇸
No 50. Cal, no dogs no recoilles rifles, what a dandy plan. Had to be a vmi grad
Wow. Didn't realize they had the M-16's that early.
XM16e1s, it would take a year or so along with a lot of dead Americans and a congressional investigation before the M16/M16a1 was developed and adopted
To be fair the issues were corrected before the A1. The A1 was adopted with no changes from the late model XM16E1’s. And the biggest if not really only culprit in the XM’s was the ammunition, not the rifles. They chose to issue cheaper ammunition with the wrong powder, which was not what was tested. The only change needed to the rifles was going back to the chrome lined bore that the earlier versions had but got dropped for cost…. Well that and dispelling the myth that they didn’t need to be cleaned and spending the few bucks each on cleaning kits. I recommend Larry Vickers Books, Vickers Guide AR-15 Volume 1 and 2. Though Volume 1 is the one that covers all this.
@@Jason-iz6ob I have seen some combat footage where quite a few of the soldiers and Marines were obviously trying to clear a malfunction of some sort in their M16s... appalling...
@@xisotopex Yes. And again most of those issues were resolved by the time the A1’s came along. The problem was bean counters who decided they could save some money by switching to gunpowders that weren’t compatible and hadn’t been tested with the M16 and then decided they could save a little more not issuing cleaning kits and trying to pretend they didn’t even need cleaning. My dad was in Vietnam in 1968. He said he never had a malfunction. And other than one time when a locking lug sheared off a bolt I’ve never had a malfunction that wasn’t magazine related. AR mags were originally intended to be single use disposable.
Where is the fighting?
How come I didn't hear any sound on this video
Back then, most hand-held 8mm cameras had no sound function.
16mm film didn’t pick up audio. This wasn’t shot with some digital camera like now days.
"Broken Arrow!"
Mike did you wrote the book about General Hal Moore? Great great job.
That's me, partner. Thanks!
Did the cave go back to the la stang valley fight other battle
Around 3:00 minute mark you see Lt. Col. Hal Moore waving off the helicopter to lift out.