General Moore led 450 men of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry into the Ia Drang Valley. We're going to listen to part of our interview with Joe Galloway from 1992 about their book. He was critical of the runup to the Iraq War, which brought him to the notice of then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. News and World Report and for Knight Ridder newspapers.

And Young: Ia Drang - The Battle That Changed The War In Vietnam.' He wrote it with the man who led that campaign, Lieutenant General Harold Moore. He collaborated on the bestselling book about that battle called 'We Were Soldiers Once. We're going to listen back to excerpts of two interviews with him.Īs a 24-year-old UPI correspondent, Galloway was at the first major battle of the Vietnam War.

Former war correspondent Joe Galloway, the only civilian awarded a Medal of Valor by the Army for combat action in the Vietnam War, died last week at the age of 79.