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What a Captured NVA Deserter Told Moore 20 Minutes Before Ia Drang Exploded

Twenty minutes after Moore's boots hit the elephant grass at LZ X-Ray, a rifleman from Herren's lead platoon grabbed an unarmed NVA soldier fifty meters from the landing zone. The man had been surviving on bananas for five days. Through a Montagnard interpreter, he told Moore there were three North Vietnamese battalions on Chu Pong mountain — and that they had been there for some time, anxious to kill Americans, unable to find them.

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