A cardboard sign pinned to a tree by a soldier after the battle simply read: "Hamburger Hill. Was it worth it?". A Battle of Attrition
The objective was part of , intended to clear North Vietnamese Army (NVA) forces from the valley. subtitle Hamburger Hill
Sergeant James Spears famously asked a reporter, "Have you ever been inside a hamburger machine? We just got cut to pieces". A cardboard sign pinned to a tree by
Soldiers dubbed it "Hamburger Hill" because they felt they were being "ground up like hamburger meat" by intense, accurate machine-gun fire and entrenched NVA positions. subtitle Hamburger Hill