2 Weeks of Hell: Vietnam’s Bloody Battle of Hamburger Hill

The Vietnam War was a conflict in which the might of modern, military technology was pitched against an enemy who made up for the shortfall with tenacity and ingenuity. For the leaders of both sides, it was a war of wills with defeat seeming as unthinkable to those in Washington as it was to the North Vietnamese in Hanoi. At times, the war seemed more about destroying the enemy than achieving strategic goals and few places was this more apparent than in the jungle and on the hills of the Ashaw Valley in 1969. It was here that US and North Vietnamese forces would demonstrate their true grit and abject hatred for one another as they fought for a hill that had almost no real value in the unfolding conflict. On military maps it was known as Hill 937 in reference to its height in meters. To the locals it was known as Dong Ap Bia. To history it is known as Hamburger Hill. Welcome to Wars of the World.

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