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18. Mai 2018 · Why the Battle for Hamburger Hill Was So Controversial. After 10 days of bruising battle, U.S. forces took the hill, only to abandon it days later. Sniper fire was so intense, one soldier...
The action caused a controversy among both the US armed services and the public back home. The battle was primarily an infantry engagement, with the US Airborne troops moving up the steeply sloped hill against well-entrenched troops. Attacks were repeatedly repelled by the PAVN defenses. Bad weather also hindered operations.
On the floor of the U.S. Senate, Senator Edward Kennedy excoriated the Army for its attack on Hamburger Hill, calling it “senseless and irresponsible.” The Army was sending “our men to their deaths to capture hills and positions that have no relation to ending this conflict,” he said. Criticism of the war, although present since the ...
But coming at this stage of the war and the peace talks, the battle for Hamburger Hill set off tremors of controversy that carried all the way to Capitol Hill. Assaults Repulsed. The battle...
10. Mai 2019 · The hill had no tactical or strategic purpose other than the NVA were on the hill,” Harkins recalled. More than 600 North Vietnamese Army (NVA) soldiers are estimated to have died in the fight.
Die Debatte über die Ereignisse am Hamburger Hill reichte bis in den US-Kongress, in dem kontrovers über die Militärpolitik in Vietnam diskutiert wurde. Insbesondere die Senatoren Edward Kennedy , George McGovern und Stephen M. Young kritisierten die Militärführung scharf.
16. Nov. 2009 · Bloody 10-day battle at “Hamburger Hill” begins. On May 11, 1969, Hamburger Hill becomes the scene of an intense and controversial battle during the Vietnam War. Known to military...
