Last week it acquired another name: Hamburger Hill. It was a grisly but all too appropriate description, for the battle in and around Ap Bia took the lives of 84 G.I.s and wounded 480 more.

American and South Vietnamese forces today stormed up the slopes of Hamburger Hill under heavy fire from North Vietnamese dug in on the summit and captured the strategic peak on their 12th try.

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.

HAUGHTON, Louisiana (KTBS) — Edward Franks Jr. spent 26 years in the Army, two years of that in combat in Vietnam. His tour of Vietnam saw action in two of the biggest battle of the war. Franks ...

James Baylor, 81, who lives in DeSoto, was awarded a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star with valor, 54 years after he fought in Vietnam's Battle of Hamburger Hill.

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His unit was assisting the Army in what is known as the Battle of Hamburger Hill. “A unit I was in, we ended up over there. We went in and helped, but we weren’t supposed to be there.