Battle of Hamburger Hill "chewed up like a hamburger" in grim reference to the Battle of Pork Chop Hill during the Korean War. The battle on Hamburger Hill occurred in May 1969, during Operation Apache Snow, the second part of a three-phased campaign intended to destroy PAVN Base Areas in the remote A Sầu Valley. This campaign was a series of operations intended to do damage to the PAVN forces in the A Sầu Valley, which had been an infiltration route into South Vietnam prior to 1966, when the PAVN seized the Special Forces camp in the valley during the Battle of A Shau
Hamburger Hill of the "Washington Post" credited the filmmakers for creating a "deeply affecting, highly accomplished film", but felt that "<nowiki>[Carabatsos]</nowiki> and his collaborators seem to feel compelled not only to show us their war, but tell us what we're to think about it", weakening the film's effect and keeping it from being a "great war movie". The film currently has the score of 100% from Rotten Tomatoes. The film debuted at No.5 at the box office bringing in a total of $3.3 million. Hamburger Hill Hamburger Hill is a 1987 American war movie about the actual assault of the U.S. Army's