LZ X-Ray Ia Drang Vietnam today (2018) visit.
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- LZ X-Ray Visit in 2018. The site of the Battle of Ia Drang 1965 during the Vietnam war.
Just a short video and some of my photos from my visit.
Update: • LZ X-Ray Ia Drang Viet...
drone (aerial view from the same spot 2024.)
I don't know why I didn't include them in this video but I also had a Nikon F3T film camera with vietnam era lenes. I shot some black and white. I'll use them in an upcoming video.
Updated Thumbnail is one of the shots I took on film.
Update: today I flew the drone around LZ X-Ray and LZ Albany so you can all see what it looks like today 2024.
It's so eerily quiet there now. So much blood shed. God bless the men who died there.
From both sides.
The quietness is nothing special to this location lol, its just nature
RIP, Ronnie Mathis. He died from the wounds he received in LZ X-Ray getting his platoon leader who had been wounded to a medivac helicopter. Ronnie was successful in getting his Sgt loaded onto the Huey when he was cut down by enemy fire just as it lifted off. He later died that evening.
It’s crazy how flat it, barley any hills or ditches for them to hide in, only the tree and bushes for concealment. They went against thousands of enemies and managed to survive on the terrain, it’s crazy.
That wasnt the terraim of back then, it was chem bombed after the battle which killed/cleared all vegetation trees etc
ever heard of post-1975 Vietnamese internal colonialism of the Central Highlands? Millions of Kinh settlers flooded into region while the Montagnards- indigenous peoples were deported away, their home lands confiscated by Vietnamese racists. who then deforested the region and turned it into their industrial center
Vietnam is a beautiful place. My uncle did two tours as a combat photographer, his last 6 months he was embedded with a team from the 5th SF Group.
So eerie yet oddly peaceful now...
imagine if you find the tunnels and bunkers on that mountain that the nva were hiding in
Thank you for sharing this...
Beautiful country hard to believe what happened there 💔
Somebody has to get to LZ Albany to get some footage. It's the one place where we really don't know what it looks like today. If someone out there reads this and is going there please get to LZ Albany. There are coordinates on the Ia Drang Wikipedia page.
Watch the Hal Moore documentary where he goes back in 1993, there's a couple guys from the ambush at Albany and they goto the area.
I snuck in here in the early 2000s and stayed overnight with me and a friend of mine we heard gunshots in the background and I haven't been back ever since that night
Yeah ok 👍🏼
Excellent footage Phil. My friend Kyle Le took the footage back in 2014 for me. I would love to have seen what the terrain on the hill looked like. If you ever get back there try to walk up that first hill overlooking LZ to get a North Vietnamese perspective and get some shots of that. Awesome job!!
Thanks mate.
If I do go back to that area again I’ll see what I can do.
It’s not an area they’re keen on anyone being in but you never know...
Imagine metal detecting there
Wow just thought the same thing
No
Moore and a few others went back in the 90s and someone found some pieces of helmet. There was a tv special on it that i saw on here years ago and they even wrote a book on it called We Are Soldiers Still
From some who worked in Laos, please don't go digging, especially when there have been airstrikes and artillery, the probability at least one is still live is extremely high.Non arming of airdropped ordnance is all too common.
Oh, and not a good idea to have a camp fire on ground you don't know.
Very cool. Thank you for posting....How's about walking toward that massif and a little bit to your right to see where the battle lines were drawn during the battle?
Great footage
Sad time in history
Amazing.. wish I knew the exact spots they were fighting from.
Stop it at 2:23 and you will see a photo taken bye Neil Sheehan taken in November 1965 at almost the identical spot and angle during the battle.
dude, insane catch. I looked up the picture right now and right on!
@@FewWords87 I sent someone in 2014 to Xray and he took video and still shots. The pic I have n Neil Sheehans pic are right next to each other on my Facebook page.
@@FewWords87 That's where he snapped it of the Lost Platoon returning after being under fire 🔥 by the NVA for 28 hours.
@@FewWords87 Thank you for letting me know. I appreciate it.
@@FewWords87 the pics I have are perfect.
Thanks
walk up the hill that had the enemys base. so one can get a idea of the size of hill a held 4000 enemys
Because Of it was exaggerated.
Maybe the new video will give a better perspective, if you're still wondering.
Cảm ơn bạn đã ghé thăm tại đây..đây là nơi khu mình sống..bạn đã ghé xem khu di tích lịch sử Pleime ở địa phương mình chưa
Cảm ơn bạn, tôi đã tận hưởng chuyến thăm của tôi ở Pleiku, người dân địa phương rất thân thiện và hiếu khách.
@@OneManandhisDrone cảm ơn bạn
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Grazie. Nessuna delle due parti sarà dimenticata.
I hope that translates correctly
Find any shell casings?
Nope
Hi, I work for south korean broadcast company JTBC, we would like to use your video on our TV program. Could you please let me know if we could use an excerpt from it giving the credit to your channel? Thanks.
Hi, sorry for the late reply I’ve been at sea.
Yes I’m happy for you to use my video for your broadcast.
Phil
Someone should conduct an EVP session there.
Wonder if the NVA tunnel complex in the mountain is still there ?
I was wondering that myself? It would be interesting to know.
@@christopherrankin4769 yes it would
@@GunnyKeith I blew it up.
Minute 1:59 to the right near the trees looks like 2 US Soldiers sitting there
Holy shit, dude.
I'm going to vietnam in 3 months and I'm going to be staying in pleiku for a few days. Is it possible to get a grab taxi to take me?. How did you get there and did you get any hassle for being there? Cool vid by the way. Looking forward to getting my own footage.
Its on route QL 14c. It runs astride the eastern face of the Chu Pong massif. Use the coordinates on the Battle of Ia Drang Valley Wikipedia page. If you are going there try to go to where LZ Albany was. LZ Albany is about 3 miles northeast of LZ Xray. You can get the coordinates for Albany on the same Wikipedia page. Its not far from Xray and nobody has any recent photos of LZ Albany or video. email me at michaeldineen58@yahoo.com . I had Kyle Le take the original LZ Xray footage in 2014.
Both LZ Xray and LZ Albany are about 30 miles southwest of Pleiku. Im pretty sure route QL 14c intersects with route 19. Route 19 runs to the Cambodian border.
I've read that lz x ray is a time sensitive area because of land mines and foreigners are not aloud anywhere near it. Is this true?
It is to a point. If you want to go through official channels you can go to the police headquarters in Pleiku which is now Gia Lai province and they can give you a permit and probably an escort to go there which may cost you a few bucks. Or you can get a cab driver to try to sneak you out there which is possible also. The escort wont let you climb Chu Prong mountain due to possible unexploded ordinance but they will take you to Xray and probably LZ Albany if you ask permission. My friend Kyle Le went out to LZ Xray for me in 2014 and went by himself on a motorbike and shot some footage of Xray. He didn't go to LZ Albany though. You should definitely go. If you go you have to make sure you get to LZ Albany cause nobody has any footage or photos of that place that's recent. I have a load of pictures from the area if you want so send me your email and I'll send them to you.
Albany is only about 3 miles slightly northeast of Xray so make it a priority to get there. I have some press photos of Albany so if you go you can use them to match up what it looks like.
To walk there with a metal detector. Id love that
DS K not sure that would be a good idea. Lots of stuff just left behind and under the surface.
Same as most of the places I visit in VN.
Just off the paths on Hamburger hill and the A Sầu Valley unexploded ordinances and other nasty stuff.
No
@@OneManandhisDrone planning to do some metal detecting there soon when I go back
@@pleibreng2tv328 Bring me with you
RIP Clinton Pooley
Don't know why they couldn't use Chinook helicopters for this x-ray landing
Once here landed American helicopters
EE-YA drang, its an i not a L
"I'm actually not supposed to be here but whatever"...yeah that pretty much sums up the whole war