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Hamburger Hill

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Hamburger Hill
bloody Viet Nam battle over strategically worthless objective (1969). [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 631]
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After all, Armstrong's "one giant leap for mankind" remark stole the show, televised at night in all its grainy glory to a national audience that had spent the previous months slogging through news of student protests, a bloody battle at Hamburger Hill in Vietnam and Sirhan Sirhan's admission he killed presidential candidate Robert F.
] Ross returned to Vietnam in June 1969, this time to serve as the 101st Airborne Division Support Command S-4, 1 month after the Battle of Hamburger Hill.
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