<p> MCoE Libraries http://www.benning.army.mil/library/</p><p>IA DRANG BOOKS</p><p>DS556.52 .A22T55 1973 Tolson, John J. Vietnam Studies: Airmobility 1961-1971. Washington, D.C.: Dept. of the Army, 1973.</p><p>DS557 .A6A654 Cash, John A. “Fight at Ia Drang.” Seven Firefights in Vietnam. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1985.</p><p>DS557 .A6H88 1967 Hymoff, Edward. First Air Cavalry Division: Vietnam. New York: M.W. Lads Publishing, 1967. </p><p>DS557.7 .H39 1974 Hay, Jr., John H. Vietnam Studies: Tactical and Material Innovations. Washington, D.C.: Dept. of the Army, 1974. </p><p>DS557.7 .P56 1990 Plimlott, John. Vietnam, the Decisive Battles. New York: MacMillan, 1990. </p><p>DS557.7 .W546 2011 Wilkins, Warren. Garb their Belts to fight them: the Viet Cong’s Big- Unit War against the U.S., 1965-1966. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2011.</p><p>DS557.8 .I18M66 1993 Moore, Hal G. We Were Soldiers Once…and Young: Ia Drang, the Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam. New York: Harper Perennial, 1993. </p><p>DS558 .I74 2011 In Country: Remember the Vietnam War. Lanham, MD: Ivan R. Dee, 2011. . DS558 .P34 1982 Palmer, Dave Richard. Summons of the Trumpet: U.S.-Vietnam in Perspective. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1982. </p><p>DS558.4 1st .S73 1987 Stanton, Shelby L. Anatomy of a Division: the 1st Cav in Vietnam. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1987. </p><p>DS559.5 .A55 2015 Alley, J. Lyles “Bud”. The Ghosts of the Green Grass: the journey of the Second Battalion Seventh Cavalry into the Hell of the Ia Drang Valley in 1965. Signal Mountain, TN: Codi Publishing, 2015.</p><p>DS559.5 .G88 1999 Gwin, Larry. Baptism: a Vietnam Memoir. New York: Ivy Books, 1999. </p><p>DS559.5 .L395 2014 Lawrence, James T. Reflections on LZ Albany: the Agony of Vietnam. Atlanta, GA: Deeds Pub., 2014. </p><p>DS559.5 .M37 Mason, Robert. Chickenhawk. New York: Viking Press, 1983. </p><p>November 2015 1 IA DRANG</p><p>DS559.5 .S26 Bird, Thomas. Everything We Had: an Oral History of the Vietnam War by Thirty-Three Americans who Fought it. New York: Random House, 1981. </p><p>DS559.5 .S75 2000 Steinman, Ron The Soldiers’ Story: Vietnam in their own words. New York.: TV Books, 2000.</p><p>DS559.8 .C6B47 1985 Bergen, John D. Military Communications: a Test for Technology. Washington, D.C.: Center for Military History, 1985.</p><p>E181 .A46 1986 Herring, George C. America’s First Battles, 1776-1965. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1986.</p><p>E840.8 .M66G83 2013 Guardia, Mike. Hal Moore: A Soldier Once…and Always. Philadelphia: Casemate, 2013.</p><p>UA990 .B35 1998 Winters, Harold A. Battling the Elements: Weather and Terrain in the Conduct of War. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.</p><p>AUDIO/EBOOKS</p><p>Bell, John L. U.S. Leadership in Wartime: Clashes, Controversy, and Compromise. Vol. 2. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2009: 774-7. Ebsco. </p><p>Builder, Carl H., Steven C. Bankes, and Richard Nordin. Command Concepts: a Theory Derived from the Practice of Command and Control. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 1999: 89-102. Ebsco. </p><p>Cash, John A. “Fight at Ia Drang.” Seven Firefights in Vietnam. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1985: 3-40. U.S. Army Center of Military History Online Bookshelves. <http://www.history.army.mil/books/Vietnam/7-ff/FrontMatter.htm>.</p><p>Hay, Jr., John H. Vietnam Studies: Tactical and Material Innovations. Washington, D.C.: Dept. of the Army, 1989: 10-23. U.S. Army Center of Military History Online Bookshelves. <http://www.history.army.mil/books/Vietnam/tactical/index.htm#Contents>.</p><p>Tolson, John J. Vietnam Studies: Airmobility 1961-1971. Washington, D.C.: Dept. of the Army, 1999: 73-83. U.S. Army Center of Military History Online Bookshelves. <http://www.history.army.mil/html/books/090/90-4/CMH_Pub_90-4-B.pdf>.</p><p>ELECTRONIC SOURCES To access, enter the document number (DN) in the search field at http://www.dtic.mil. Headquarters 1st Air Cavalry Division. Operations Report Lessons Learned 3-66. May 10, 1966. Defense Technical Information Center. <http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/855112.pdf>. DN: AD855112</p><p>Megahan, Rick. “Battalion Command in Combat--Forward Edge of Combat Power: a Leadership Analysis of Selected Battalion Commanders in Combat in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam.” Fort </p><p>November 2015 2 MCoE Libraries http://www.benning.army.mil/library/</p><p>Leavenworth, KS: Command and General Staff College, 1990: 206-306. Defense Technical Information Center. <http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a227385.pdf>. DN: ADA227385</p><p>Headquarters 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile). After Action Report, IA DRANG Valley Operation 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry 14-16 November 1965. Dec. 9, 1965. Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library. <http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p4013coll3/id/2493>.</p><p>Oettinger, Callie. “Ia Drang Reading and Viewing Lists.” November 14, 2011. Command Posts: a Focus on Military History, Policy, and Fiction. <http://www.commandposts.com/2011/11/ia-drang- reading-and-viewing-list/>.</p><p>Schifferle, Peter J. “Ia Drang Campaign 1965: Successful Operational Campaign or Mere Tactical Failure, The.” Fort Leavenworth, KS: Command and General Staff College, 1994. Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library. <http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p4013coll3/id/1337>.</p><p>Thomas, Scott. “Operational Encirclements: Can the United States Military Decisively Follow Through?” Command and General Staff College, 2009: 18-25. Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library. <http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p4013coll3/id/2493>.</p><p>“Written Transcript of Oral Operations Order Issued by Lt. Col. Harold G. Moore, Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry.” November 1965. Douglas Pike Collection: Unit 2-Military Operations. Vietnam Center and Archives Virtual Vietnam Archive. <http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=2130413004>.</p><p>MONOGRAPHS Edwards, Robert H. “Operations of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), in the Airmobile Assault of Landing Zone X-Ray, Ia Drang Valley, Republic of Viet Nam, 14-16 November 1965.” 1967. Student Paper. MCoE Libraries. Digital Collection. <https://www.benning.army.mil/library/content/Virtual/papers/vietnam/STUP4/EdwardsRobert%20H. %20CPT.pdf>.</p><p>Wilson, Bruce. “Operations of Company A, 2d Battalion, 12th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) in Offensive Search Operations for a Specific Enemy Unit, in the Ia Drang Valley, Republic of Vietnam, 10 August 1966.” 1968. Student Paper. MCoE Libraries. Digital Collection. <https://www.benning.army.mil/library/content/Virtual/papers/vietnam/STUP4/WilsonBruce %20MAJ.pdf>.</p><p>PERIODICALS</p><p>Amos, Harry O. “Artillery Support of Vietnamese.” Military Review 46.8 (Aug. 1966): 30-41. Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library. <http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p124201coll1/id/632>.</p><p>Kinnard, Harry W.O. “Victory in the Ia Drang: the Triumph of a Concept, A.” Army 17.9 (Sept. 1967): 71-91. </p><p>November 2015 3 IA DRANG</p><p>Leonard, Steven M. “Forward Support in the Ia Drang Valley.” Army Logistician 38.2 (Mar.-Apr. 2006): 41-5. Ebsco. </p><p>------. “Steel Curtain: Guns on Ia Drang.” Field Artillery (Jul.-Aug. 1998): 17-20. Web. < http://sill- www.army.mil/firesbulletin/archives/ >. Search for Journal month and year.</p><p>Pierce, Kenneth R. “Battle of the Ia Drang Valley, The.” Military Review 69.1 (Jan. 1989): 87-97. Combined Arms Research Library. <http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p124201coll1/id/500>.</p><p>Pribbenow, Merle L. “Fog of War: the Vietnamese View of the Ia Drang Battle, The.” Military Review 71.1 (Jan.-Feb. 2001): 93-7. Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library. <http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p124201coll1/id/191>.</p><p>DOCUMENTS</p><p>DS556.76 .C1 (11/24/65) “After Action Report-Operation Silver Bayonet, 12-21 Nov. 1965.” United States Army, 1st Cavalry Division, 1965. MCoE Libraries. Archival Collection. <http://www.benning.army.mil/library/content/Virtual/Documents/Hardcopy/paper/DS556.57_7th_9Dec6 5_IaDrang.pdf ></p><p>MAPS</p><p>Burbeck, James. Ia Drang 1965 and the Defense of Landing Zone X-Ray. Map. n.d. War Times Journal, The. <http://www.wtj.com/articles/xray/>.</p><p>Ia Drang and Vicinity, 1965, Opening Moves. Map. United States Defense Printing Agency. n.d. United States Military Academy. <http://www.westpoint.edu/history/SiteAssets/SitePages/Vietnam %20War/Vietnam06.gif>.</p><p>VERTICAL FILE For additional printed sources, check the vertical file at the MCoE HQ Donovan Research Library. Ask circulation and/or reference desks for assistance.</p><p>November 2015 4</p>