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Hamburger Hill is a 1987 American war film set during the Battle of Hamburger Hill, a May 1969 assault during the Vietnam War by the U.S. Army's 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division, on a ridge of Dong Ap Bia near the Laotian border in central Vietnam. The ridge was a well-fortified position, including trenchworks and bunkers, of the North Vietnamese Army. U.S. military records of the battle refer…
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In 1987 Hollywood gave impression of trying to close the book on Vietnam War. In relatively short time three high profile films depicting that military misadventure from the perspective of ordinary soldiers were released, partly motivated by Hollywood leftists’ desire to counter Reagan era Weimar-style revisionism about stolen victory and “stab in the back” and partly because studios raced to exploit what was suppos…More
