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The Battle of Hamburger Hill was a battle of the Vietnam War which was fought between the United States and South Vietnam and North Vietnamese forces from May 10–20, 1969. Although the heavily fortified Hill 937 was of little strategic value, U.S. command ordered its capture by direct assault.The battle was primarily an infantry affair, with the U.S. Airborne troops moving up the highly sloped hill against well entrenched troops. Attacks were repeatedly repelled by weather, friendly fire, accidents, and especially the highly effective Vietnam People’s Army (PAVN) defenses. Nevertheless the Airborne troops took the hill through direct assault, causing extensive casualties to the PAVN forces, and taking such in their own units. The debacle caused an outrage both in the American military and public.
A brutal and realistic war film focuses on the lives of a squad of 14 U.S. Army soldiers of B Company, 3rd Battalion, 187th Infanty Regiment, 101st Airborne Division during the brutal 10 day (May 11-20, 1969) battle for Hill 937 in the A Shau Valley of Vietnam as they try again and again to take the fortified hill held by the North Vietnamese, and the faults and casualties they take every time in which the battle was later dubbed “Hamburger Hill” because enemy fire was so fierce that the fusillade of bullets turned assaulting troops into shreded hamburger meat. A partial list of the cast: Anthony Barrile … Vincent ‘Alphabet’ Languilli Michael Boatman … Motown (as Michael Patrick Boatman) Don Cheadle … Pvt. Washburn Michael Dolan … Murphy Don James … McDaniel / Mac Dylan McDermott … Sgt. Frantz Michael A. Nickles … Galvan (as M.A. Nickles) Harry O’Reilly … Duffy Daniel O’Shea … Gaigin Tim Quill … Pvt. Joe Beletsky Tommy Swerdlow … Pvt. Bienstock Courtney B. Vance .
