Hamburger Hill is the American name for a mountain in central Vietnam near the Laotian border.

During the war, the mountain occupied a strategic position along an infiltration route which North Vietnamese soldiers used to enter South Vietnam.

North Vietnamese troops were entrenched there to protect this infiltration route.

In May 1969, 1,800 assault troops from the Army’s 101st Airborne Division were ordered to dislodge the North Vietnamese from the hill by frontal assault.

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