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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

A day-long reenactment of the battle got underway Saturday morning with the seaside city of Gloucester standing in for ...

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"We were at Firebase Jack a few miles behind Hamburger Hill," said Gipson, now 82. The hill, itself, had no real tactical significance, but the bloody 10-day battle that took it was part of a U.S ...

The Battle of Bunker Hill took place on June 17, 1775, and is considered one of the bloodiest battles of the Revolutionary War. More than 1,000 British casualties and 450 colonial casualties occurred.

Eighteen months later in May 1969, Franks was there at the Battle of Hamburger Hill. Edward Franks Jr. “I was wounded on Hamburger Hill,” Franks said. “It was a fight, a 10-day battle.