#Hamburger Hill

[sgtgrunt0331-3]

On May 20, 1969, after enduring a brutal 10-day battle, members of the 101st Airborne Division finally get a chance to rest on top of Hamburger Hill.

During the 10-day battle, U.S. losses totaled 72 killed and 372 wounded. To take the position, the 101st Airborne Division (Airmobile) eventually committed five infantry battalions and ten batteries of artillery. In addition, the US Air Force flew 272 missions and expended more than 500 tons of ordnance.

Estimates of the losses incurred by the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) included 630 dead (bodies discovered on and around the battlefield); including many found in makeshift mortuaries within the tunnel complex. There is no count of the NVA running off the mountain, those killed by artillery and air strikes, the wounded and dead carried into Laos, or the dead buried in collapsed bunkers and tunnels. During the ten-day battle, US forces captured 89 individual weapons and 22 crew‑served weapons.

(Photo courtesy of the Associated Press)

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Hamburger Hill (1987, John Irvin)

25/03/2024

Hamburger Hill is a 1987 film directed by John Irvin, inspired by the Battle of Hamburger Hill, which occurred during the Vietnam War.

Vietnam, 1969, a group of young paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division, under the command of Sergeant Frantz, is sent to the A Shau valley to try to wrest Hill 937 from the North Vietnamese, which, following the battle, will be nicknamed "Hamburger Hill" (meat grinder hill), due to the significant losses suffered by American soldiers.

Filmed between October and December 1986, Hamburger Hill is part of the Vietnam-movie genre of the period, coming out a year after Oliver Stone's Platoon and at the same time as Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket.

[blood-mocha-latte]

situationship of all time. to ME

[doomergroomer]

Best War Movies What You Got?

30 Seconds Over Tokyo

Paths of Glory

Breaker Morant

[johnpodlaski]

Hamburger Hill – The Last Patrol

My friend, Jonas Thorsell, re-discovered the battlefields of Hamburger Hill with some Rakkasan warriors who fought there 54 years ago. Join them on their quest to reach the summit. As I sit down and write this, it is almost exactly 11 years since my first visit to Hamburger Hill in the A Shau Valley in the western mountainous area of Vietnam. I was on a motorbike trip with a friend, driving…

[night-unfurls-its-splendour]

Drinks up also for the Christines who go for a full embrace

1. Lisa Vroman (w. Brad Little, US TOUR)

2. Elizabeth Welch (w. Ted Keegan, BROADWAY)

3. Samantha Hill (w. Hugh Panaro, BROADWAY)

4. Olivia Safe (w. Ian Jon Bourg, HAMBURG)

[geopsych]

Views on either side of that hickory in the previous post. Spitzenberg Hill on one side and a view to the Pinnacle and Hawk Mountain on the other, even a glimpse of Pulpit Rock. That tree chose a glorious spot.

[nedison]

An animated retelling of John Lennon's Being A Short Diversion On The Dubious Origins Of Beatles recited by Bernard Hill, in character as John, from the 1985 TV special John Lennon: A Journey In The Life.

[blighted-beak]

(nsfw) full version here

(blood, ghost hands, ball fondling, jacob's ladder piercing)

[sgtgrunt0331-3]

On May 20, 1969, after enduring a brutal 10-day battle, members of the 101st Airborne Division finally get a chance to rest on top of Hamburger Hill.

(Photo courtesy of the Associated Press)

[volturiwolf]

On the 21st of October, while visiting friends in Hamburg and celebrating my birthday week, I followed the path Joker Out set and discovered new places

[traderrock]

Sir Mix-a-Lot and his posse at Dick's, Seattle, 1989.

Photo: Charles Peterson.

[thatrandomartistjavi]

They’re so besties in my head fr

[tsuki-tsuki-koi-koi]

Where r my ogata has TMJ truthers

[blood-mocha-latte]

thanks to the lovely @georgieluz and @l13bg0tt for the tags!

rules: post 7 comfort movies and tag 7 people

no pressure tags: @merryandrewsworld, @musicalfreak24601, @ariesbilly, @laceyamethyst, @dcyllom, and anyone else that wants to do it