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But Im glad I went, she said. God bless you! Verify and try again. As noted in another correction, this unit travelled with their weapon. The 2 windows reflect a change made in either the Delta ("D") or Hotel ("H") model Huey where the troop compartment was expanded for a larger payload. Maj. Plumley as he bent at the waist and, grinning, hollered at me over the din of battle: You cant take no pictures laying down there on the ground, Sonny! He was right, of course, and I got up and followed that grizzled veteran as he ignored all the lead in the air and made his rounds collecting a small reserve force to defend the command post, if necessary. You cannot always remain a witness, above and removed from the story There are some events which demand your participation. Click Parish earned a righteous Silver Star that morning after more than 100 dead enemy soldiers were found heaped in a broad semi-circle around his position. Why does this book/film not even include a hint of that problem which surely must have existed at that time and place? Jimmy. From a sympathetic guy, Two months later, at 22, Nakayama died after being severely burned during a napalm attack that was. When I saw "We Were Soldiers" with my wife and son I broke down in tears and said "That was my cousin!". I missed Ia Drang by about four months. Nakayama was mortally wounded in the Ia Drang Valley while serving with the 8th Engineer Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division when an F100 Super Saber dropped napalm on his position. His commission came through a week after his You have permission to edit this article. and The Virtual Wall's I like others have seen the movie "We Were Soldiers". He was right. Thomas Keeton and, drawing his .45-caliber pistol, jacked a round into the chamber and yelled: Gentlemen, prepare to defend yourselves!. We will review the memorials and decide if they should be merged. Here, Joe Galloway's photos from the war Click C Company, 8th Engineer Battalion 1st Cavalry Division, U.S. Army. Jim, a second I cried. would have been unconscious after he was hit. This was a device on the right side of the rifle to ram the round up the chamber. Takashi in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. Patrick W. McEnerney The scene where he is put on the helicopter stirred the depths of my soul. And sure enough, a few scenes later, he's turned into a fried eggroll. The Battle of Ia Drang took place in November 1965. Lt. Walter J. There may have been several causes; instructions issued that the rifle was "self-cleaning", improper ammunition design, improper magazine design (therefore in a later stage 18 rounds instead of 20 were used in the mag). I just wanted to say to his family and friends that that I am sorry this had to happen to him. William A. Findlay III, MD The brigade commander, Col. Tim Brown, briefed me on the plans for the day. He knew he would also need the helicopters to get his wounded to medical care in the rear. well as a helicopter pilot who Galloway said remembers her husband Jim, a second lieutenant in the National Guard, had joined the regular army. E-mail address is not available. This would allow for the hammer to be down in a safe position, though the weapon may have already been used. He was outgoing, even charismatic. Sadly, Jimmie was in the drop zone and was horribly burned. In order to serve in the Vietnam War, Nakayama took a reduction in rank to private which was required of him to join the Regular Army. Joe Lee Galloway was ask by a medic to help carry Jimmy Nakayama to the HUEY, He was one of 4 persons to carry Jimmy D. Nakayama, Joe Lee Galloway held one of his legs. Alma Givens: Jim Grimshaw . He kept his head on his desk the whole day and refused to talk with anyone. When he arrives at the staging area, he also has an M-16 slung over his right shoulder. other people will know now, too.. everybody liked. Boyd Norris. After the school year, Jimmy moved with his family, apparently to Rigby, about 15 miles away. born 10 days before her father's death, had a second brief marriage A Note from The Virtual Wall She is A public affairs specialist for the trying to find her for years, but she had remarried briefly and now wounded, spoke of her and the child he never saw. The only reason I knew it was Sunday, Nov. 14, 1965, was because the day before was my 24th birthday a birthday I spent in a small foxhole dug under a tea bush at the Catecha Plantation, temporary headquarters of the Third Brigade of the 1st Cavalry Division. I almost cried. could tell her when to turn away. So she grieved, raised the daughter Please enter your email and password to sign in. movie. But he arrives with an M16. They passed just over our heads and impacted and exploded into a wall of flame 15-20 yards away, engulfing two engineer demolition men dug in there. Herrick, now dead, had led his 29 men on a chase after two North Vietnamese they spotted as they were moving up to join Bravo Company on the right flank Sunday afternoon. are easier to access with your left hand if sitting in the right seat. The only problem is the story takes place in 1965 and the Grumman EA-6B was not operational till three years later, in May of 1968. jimmynak@hotmail.com. Nakayama was mortally wounded in the Ia Drang Valley while serving with the 8th Engineer Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division when an F100 Super Saber dropped napalm on his position. After I saw the movie We Were Soldiers Jimmy's story touched me and I just wanted to say "Rest in Peace, Jimmy, you were the best". The movie adheres to the description in the book, although Ia Drang Valley of Vietnam, knew he was burned by napalm, knew it Delta Company had its own six M60 machine guns plus another three picked up on the battlefield. The gunners cranked the cannons down, loaded up with beehive rounds crammed with thousands of tiny triangular pieces of metal sharp as razor blades, and let fly. years, and was more than willing to share with her his experiences After a brief welcome by Lt. Col. Moore, I sat with my back to a small tree, my cameras and my M-16 rifle in my lap, and felt like the luckiest man alive: I had an exclusive seat at the biggest battle of the war, and Pete Arnett didnt. I met and became friends with several men from my aviation company who participated in the battle. Col. Moore leaves his house to head off to Vietnam in the middle of the night carrying only his duffel bag for the walk to the staging area. In that situation, with all the dust and smoke (not to mention the smell of rotting bodies) wearing the bandana as a face shield would not be incorrect (and even if it were a uniform violation, what were they gonna do, send 'em to Viet Nam?). As the troops gather for the transport to Vietnam, they are all carrying weapons and full combat gear. His death was a loss to the men around him and to his family. We had no foxholes. God bless his family! If you value your freedom, think about these brave men who have died for their country and for you. 7 biggest mistakes in Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens, The 20 biggest mistakes in The Wizard of Oz, 40 biggest mistakes in The Big Bang Theory, 6 Cool things you've never noticed in movies, The biggest mistakes in the Harry Potter movies, 25 mistakes you never noticed in great movies, 7 mistakes in Beetlejuice you never spotted, More questions & answers from We Were Soldiers. film and could tell her when to turn away. Almost anywhere else would have been a better choice for the enemy. He was the first from Jefferson County to die in Vietnam," he said. Military units generally have a duty officer or small guard force present or on call overnight. The black and white checked bandanas that the viet cong (not NVA) soldiers were wearing, were part of the uniform of the people's army of Viet Nam (Viet Cong). One of our very best. God bless Jimmy and the brave soldiers who fought in the Vietnam War. After he says this, he stops breathing and the medic checks for a pulse in his neck with his thumb. follows suit, although Galloway recently told Olson that while the Southern California, "even though I didn't feel like it and didn't Drag images here or select from your computer for PFC Jimmy D. Nakayama memorial. As a former US ARMY helicopter pilot - I noticed from the opening frame that the helicopters they were using in the movie were late model HUEYs that were not available in 1965. I followed him into the tent and listened closely as he got Moore on the radio. The days of the week didnt mean much for soldiers or reporters in South Vietnam. Ten months was all they had together, and for the last few I slipped away from the other reporters and grabbed him: Matt, I need a ride to the fight. He told me that he was going in as soon as it was dark with two Hueys full of ammunition and water, but he couldnt take me unless Moore said so. Here, "We Were Soldiers Once& Young" book reviews In fact, one can only crawl through many of them. His commission came through a. the states. The earlier (1965) model did NOT have the forward assist on it. The red dirt near the termite hill was hard as concrete. Sunday. To keep up to date with us, subscribe to our email list. onto a helicopter. Nikki, "Part of me hoped and tried to believe that they had made a Please ensure you have given Find a Grave permission to access your location in your browser settings. There was an error deleting this problem. Nakayama was mortally wounded in the Ia Drang Valley while serving with the 8th Engineer Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division when an F100 Super Saber . Their clothes were Save to an Ancestry Tree, a virtual cemetery, your clipboard for pasting or Print. and a son and moved to Billings as a public affairs specialist for Try again. In the movie some of the North Vietnamese underground tunnels were huge. When the 442nd RCT arrived in Italy in June 1944 the 100th Infantry Battalion became one of the 442nd's three maneuver battalions. months of their marriage, Jim was in Vietnam. Galloway said he was more than willing to share with her his There were enough casualties without having to take into consideration weapon malfunction. I was a 9 year old boy when you made the ultimate sacrifice for your country. climax. Olson said she tried to get more information from the government, or some way to contact someone who was at the battle. My heart goes out to his family. met on the day of the battle, Nov. 14. accompanied by a friend who had seen the film already. their daughter, had been born Nov. 7, but her father didnt know Remove advertising from a memorial by sponsoring it for just $5. Jimmy Nakayama: Sloane Momsen . Nikki, then 37, had two young sons of her own. This can only be seen in the deleted scenes on the DVD version. We circled overhead at 1,500 feet as Brown told Moore he intended to land to see the situation firsthand. Jimmy and Clark walked to the Aid Station under their own power, aided by the troops whose foxholes they had run to after the drop. (renews at {{format_dollars}}{{start_price}}{{format_cents}}/month + tax). For the next agonizing 26 hours, that small band of Americans was trapped by a ring of hundreds of enemy fighters determined to kill them all. That reporter Galloway wants to come in with me. The reply: If hes crazy enough to want to come in here and youve got room, bring him!. Their memory lives on forever. That done, we fell flat in the grass as the two Hueys lifted off into the darkness. His wife gave birth to his first Child, a daughter, ten days before he died. E-mail address is not available. Hand grenades are the best answer for such probes. This is a carousel with slides. As the situation on Edwards side of the clearing worsened, the battalions air liaison officer, Air Force Lt. Charlie Hastings, keyed his mike and made a desperate call: Broken Arrow! The sponsor of a memorial may add an additional. He attended grammar school in Rexsburg but the family moved to Rigby where he finished his education. "It was incredibly traumatic," Olson said. It only has the switch for the high-lo rpm. E-mail address is not available. Continuing with this request will add an alert to the cemetery page and any new volunteers will have the opportunity to fulfill your request. "When he died I felt like everything I knew and believed about In the scene where Lt. Herrick dies, he says that he was glad to die for his country. His daughter Nikki was born only days earlier on Nov. 7th. Keith Bodine Olson said. Are you sure that you want to delete this memorial? She cried through the I saw the movie We Were Soldiers and always wondered what happend to him after the napalm bomb hit him because they never tell you in the movie. Bureau of Land Management in Billings. Subsequent replacements would have been issued their weapons in country. Fifty years have passed since Jim Nakayama wrote those words to his 18-year-old bride. POSTED ON 11.12.2017. However, because XM16-E1 replica rifles are almost non-existant, the rifles used in the movie were M16-A1 rifles (which were introduced in 1967) which had early 3-prong flash hiders and early non-trap-door stocks attached (instead of the M16A1s birdcage flash hider and trap-door stock). and the flesh came off and I could feel the bare bones of his You may not upload any more photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 20 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 5 photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 30 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 15 photos to this memorial. king_of_dirt9@msn.com. But I had such a compelling need to Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. Remembering Jim Nakayama - YouTube 0:00 / 0:38 Remembering Jim Nakayama 3,087 views Nov 9, 2015 Lt. Col. Jim Harper of the Idaho Army National Guard speaks about Rigby resident who was killed. The students rallied to Jimmy's defense, offering increased friendship and support, trying to make him feel as "American" as any of us. Search above to list available cemeteries. POSTED BY: Jose Carrasco. support for the soldiers roar overhead. Lately she's started to feel that the hole in her life is at When the first batch of helicopters is lifting for Ia Drang you can see that one of them is a short version (UH-1A or B). middle of the night at her parents' home in St. Anthony, Idaho, in After watching "We Were Soldiers" I was deeply moved to find out more about the life of Jimmy Nakayama. Olson's husband - Jim Nakayama was his name - Within the first hour, Herrick had been fatally wounded, as were two sergeants. cemeteries found within miles of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. The enemy fire aimed at Charlie Company also raked Moores command post area. In the movie, Galloway introduces himself to Nakayama, and in an enemy mortar attack. I believe he was LDS. Buy the book and look at Joe Galloway's pictures. Please reset your password. Hastings was screaming into his mike: Pull Up! I remember thinking 'Thank God for this well. His active duty commission to Second Lieutenant had been approved but he never knew it.Jimmy had married his high school sweetheart, Trudie Olsen. Use Escape keyboard button or the Close button to close the carousel. charred soldiers (Nakayama). In "We Were Soldiers," Galloway introduces himself to Nakayama, From Torrey and Paul. VC tunnels were usually of the smaller variety but the NVA tunnels were often built for machines, artillery and huge amounts of supplies. This was a loss, but even sadder is the fact that Jimmy Nakayama, the first person killed from Idaho in the Vietnam War (Battle at Ia Drang, Nov 1965), is buried near by. Jimmy Nakayama, the young woman who loved him, and the daughter who would never know a father's love. His daughter was born on Nov 7, 1965. I learned more than I ever knew before, she said. The sergeants tried to call off Herricks chase, but he raced right into an enemy ambush. An Army annual shows Jimmy D. Nakayama. Use the links under See more to quickly search for other people with the same last name in the same cemetery, city, county, etc. Release dates: March 11, 1995.July 13, 1996. But in an interview with Jam Press on Tuesday, the. Every time I look through these names I get another big lump in my throat. I was Somebody yelled at me to grab the feet of one of the Oops, we were unable to send the email. napalm to know it would be pretty terrible. (as Tom Sanders) american fallen soldiers Army SPC Jimmy Nakayama She and burning grass. Neither of these effects were present in the film, at least not to the degree that would have been logical/historically accurate. For the first few years after Jim's death, she ", "I knew he had been hit by napalm, and I knew enough about plunged into the past as if all these years hadnt gone by. He didn't dwell on it, but Jim had premonitions that they would junior and senior years of high school. During the last year of the European campaign the 442nd RCT became the most heavily decorated American unit of the war - and with that distinction came a second one; the 442nd had one of the highest casualty rates of any American unit in World War II. Once he was gone, there was part of me You never check a pulse with your thumb because it is big enough that you will feel your own pulse. Please check your email and click on the link to activate your account. He died two days later at an Army hospital. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. Singed around the edges, the letter was Boyd.Norris@cox.net. In Things were a lot worse for Charlie Company. In slow motion, the blood shoots up out of his uniform from a special pouch. Spencer Gray Years later, after her death, when her farm was demolished, the rock was buried. International reporter Joe Galloway as Galloway helped load him Jimmy Nakayama died on Nov 17, 1965. She was seven months pregnant. RVN 1966-1967 Becoming a Find a Grave member is fast, easy and FREE. Brown reluctantly ordered his pilot away from the battlefield. (Minorities were very rare in Idaho at that time.) Make sure that the file is a photo. As he was on the edge of the blast, this took him out of the burned area. Are you sure that you want to delete this photo? To this day I regret my decision to finish college. E-mail address is not available. It was made up of Nisei (second generation Japanese-Americans), mostly from Hawaii but some from the mainland internment camps. Thirty-seven years ago I was never able to get information or It was completely devastating.". Oops, something didn't work. Just to see him soo happy when that guy took the picture of him and then seeing him on the ground all burnt up, crying and screaming, made my stomach roll. He transferred to the Regular Army, accepting a position as an enlisted man until such time his commission would be approved for active duty Army. May he rest in peace. Before 11 a.m., the radios in Browns tent went crazy. Associated Press reporter Joe Galloway, who had met Jimmy two days earlier, was there when the Napalm hit Jimmy and has wrote about it in the book, "We Were Soldiers Once - and Young". locate anyone someone who was with him. E-mail address is not available. Plumley's warning was directed at the medical aide personnel in a (relatively) rear area. This flower has been reported and will not be visible while under review. No one would tell me anything other than you had passed away in Viet Nam. the Bureau of Land Management. This film is supposed to take place in Vietnam. Filmed at Fort Benning, GA in 2002, the hangar used by Mel Gibson's character LTC Hal Moore to introduce his officers to the Huey and his plan to use the helicopter in combat, was home to Alpha Company, 14th Combat Support Hospital (CSH). E-mail address is not available. army. Thanks for using Find a Grave, if you have any feedback we would love to hear from you. The medic is actually using his index and middle fingers to check for a pulse. During the battle, Jimmy was hit by Napalm from a US plane who dropped the Napalm bomb too close to the American lines. I've recently turned 22, and realize that his fate could have been my own if I had been born earlier. Only minutes later, a friendly-fire incident came close to wiping out the battalion command post and all of us gathered there. Close this window, and upload the photo(s) again. Inserting a fresh magazine to replace a partially empty magazine during a lull is good practice. The movie is based on the book, Once We were Was Nominated for Best Actor for his work as "Jax" in Deadland at the 2009 Action On Film Festival. What I saw was a large combat boot on the foot of Sgt. The give-away is that all of the helicopters in the movie have 2 windows on the troop compartment door. from her native Idaho began calling about a recently released mistake.". read more read less. Jimmy's uncle had fought for the "442" and his country.". Nakayama died from his wounds on Nov. 17, 1965. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. We would like to share our respect and condolences with you and your family. Greg (Matt) Dillon, Moores S-3, or operations officer, walking toward a tent on the edge of the clearing. His daughter, Nikki Nakayama, who was born mere days before her father died, was unsure about what to expect about the event. He was sending Hal Moores 1st Battalion 7th U.S. Cavalry on a search-and-destroy mission. She would stay with them in St. "Their hair burned off in an instant. Jimmy Nakayama Thank you for your services in the Vietnam War. books publisher, and he replied three days later. "Tell my wife and baby I love them," he gasped to United Press He would have left home with his personal gear, stopped at his HQs to draw his weapon, then proceeded to a designated rally point for departure. Galloway gave her the names and telephone numbers of two others Only last year I visited the Wall in Washington D.C. and sought out your name carved therein. Olson knew very little about what happened in the Ia Drang She plans to call them, as It was a commanders worst nightmare. experiences with her late husband. I cried. As manager of this memorial you can add or update the memorial using the Edit button below. locate anyone someone who was with him. He was popular in school and excelled in sports, especially baseball. She cried through the Ia Drang Memorial, Copyright 1997-2019 www.VirtualWall.org, Ltd (TM). So there is truth to that scene. Im glad to know his last thoughts Thanks for your help! It was not yet 8 a.m., and now a battalion of main force Viet Cong launched its attack against the southern side of the clearing now occupied by Delta Company. Jimmy was a true hero and one of the bravest men I have ever heard of. The lead plane had just released two napalm canisters. His presence will definitely be missed. what he was faced with there. The They look very much like the movie set. They had one child together, a daughter, Nikki, who was born a few days before Jimmy died in Vietnam. It became known as the "Purple Heart Battalion" during campaigns in North Africa and Italy. Most helicopters are piloted on the right side, unlike fixed wing aircraft. had such a compelling need to know what he was faced with.. The fate of Lt. Henry T. Herricks platoon weighed heavily on Moores mind. 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