Henry Herrick spots an enemy scout and runs after him, ordering his reluctant soldiers to follow. Upon arrival in the area with a platoon of soldiers, 2nd Lt.
After landing, the soldiers capture a North Vietnamese soldier and learn from him that the location they were sent to is actually the base camp for a veteran North Vietnamese army division of 4,000 men. Moore leads a newly-created air cavalry unit into the Ia Drang Valley. After arriving in Vietnam, he learns that an American base has been attacked and is ordered to take his 400 men after the enemy and eliminate the North Vietnamese attackers although intelligence has no idea of the number of enemy troops. US Army Lieutenant Colonel Hal Moore is chosen to train and lead a battalion. Viet Minh commander Nguyen Huu An orders his soldiers to "kill all they send, and they will stop coming".Įleven years later, the United States is fighting the Vietnam War. In 1954 a French unit on patrol during the First Indochina War is ambushed by Viet Minh forces.
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