Thanks, Rapaire. I think "Hamburger Hill" copped out with its bland elegiac verse at the end, instead of a silent note that the 101st and the ARVNs (who aren't in the movie) left the mountain after a few weeks. It was worthless. The battle wasn't even for real estate. It was strictly for body count, as the army more or less acknowledged.

As for Catch-22, book and movie : you said it!