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1 of 12: #TDIDH - May 10, 1969

19-year-old Sergeant James Spears: “Have you ever been inside a hamburger machine? We just got cut to pieces by extremely accurate machine-gun fire.”

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2/12: Military planners referred to the 3,000 foot tall highland as "Hill 937." North Vietnamese Army (NVA) fighters called it "The Mountain of the Crouching Beast." Members of the
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knew it as a version of hell on earth. We would come to know it as Hamburger Hill.
3 of 12: Over the coming 10 days, this hill would serve as a metaphor for war itself.

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