We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young: A Book Report This six-page undergraduate paper is in the form of a book report on We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young. The author notes that this book describes the harrowing battles fought in the crucial autumn of 1965. It recounts the 1st Battalion of the United States ArmyÂ’s 7th Cavalry Regiment, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Harold Moore and accompanied by UPI reporter Joseph Galloway. The troops swept by helicopter into VietnamÂ’s remote Ia Drang Valley and found themselves surrounded by a numerically-superior force of two-thousand North Vietnamese regular army soldiers. Pages: 6 Bibliography: 0 source(s) listed Filename: 21867 Were Soldiers Vietnam.doc Price: 53.70