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BATTLE BEGAN ON THIS DAY IN 1969
"Let Valor Not Fail" by Dan Nance, Battle of Hamburger
Hill, 1969.
Hamburger Hill was the scene of an intense and controversial
battle during the Vietnam War. Known to military planners as
Hill 937 (a reference to its height in meters), the solitary peak
is located in the dense jungles of the A Shau Valley of Vietnam,
about a mile from the border with Laos.
The Vietnamese referred to the hill as Dong Ap Bia (or Ap Bia
Mountain, “the mountain of the crouching beast”). Though the
hill had no real tactical significance, taking the hill was part of
Operation Apache Snow, a U.S. military sweep of the A Shau
Valley. The purpose of the operation was to cut off North
Vietnamese infiltration from Laos and enemy threats to the
cities of Hue and Da Nang.
DIRECTOR OF THE FBI NAMED ON THIS DAY
J. Edgar Hoover was named acting director of the Bureau of
Investigation (now the FBI) on May 10, 1924. By the end of the
year he was officially promoted to director. This began his 48-
year tenure in power, during which time he personally shaped
American criminal justice in the 20th century.
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