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8 Personality: Training dogs to detect land mines in Vietnam, Charles Fasanaro discovered he was neither a man of peace nor a man of war.
12 Fighting Forces: The Special Forces camp at Tong Le Chon was under siege, and the Nha Trang Mike Forces came flying to the rescue.
16 Arsenal: With 'torpedoes,' ladders, and then the rope, Marine aviators came up with ways of getting recon scouts out of harm's way.
54 Reviews: Is Robert McNamara's In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam historical fact- or revisionist history?
62 Perspectives: Disney's Operation Dumbo Drop dramatized a real-life compassionate mission.
22 Night of the Coffin Search: There was more to being a CIA operative in Vietnam than being a spy. Sometimes you had to be a funeral director, too.
30 Twilight of the Troopship: Four air transports and 40 airmen could have done in a week's time what USNS General William Wiegel took seven weeks and 125 men to do.
38 Interview: Assault Helicopter Pilot: When the LRPs of the 101st Airborne Division heard the call sign 'Kingsmen,' they knew that help would not be long in arriving.
46 NVA Surprise at Fire Support Base Mary Ann: By 1971, almost half the Army had withdrawn from Vietnam. But as the soldiers at Fire Support Base Mary Ann found out, the war was not yet over.
Volume: 8
Issue: 4
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8 Personality: His back broken in a helicopter crash, Medal of Honor winner Fred Zabitosky risked his life to rescue the crew.
10 Arsenal: Republic Aircraft's F-105 Thunderbird, better known as the 'Thud,' was the Air Force's warhorse in Vietnam.
12 Fighting Forces: The U.S. Navy patrol vessels of Task Forces 115, 116 and 117 played a key role in the war.
50 Reviews: After 30 years of propaganda about the 'heroic people's army,' two NVA soldiers tell what it was really like in the Communist ranks.
58 Perspectives: Lessons learned in the savage battles of the 1972 Eastertide Offensive were to pay off at the Battle of Khafji almost two decades later.
18 The Story Behind the McNamara Line: Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara deluded himself in thinking that North Vietnamese infiltration could be stopped with electronic wizardry.
26 An Engineer's Mekong Delta Memoir: What with mines and mortars and booby traps, war was still hell, even at a Mekong Delta 'rear-echelon' construction site.
34 Swift Boats in Operation Market Time: Before 1965, 70 percent of enemy supplies were being infiltrated by sea. But Operation Market Time cut that flow to a trickle.
42 Flying the Sea Knight: 'You came swooping out of the sky like an angel of death.... You could see the enemy...you could even make out their faces.'
Volume: 8
Issue: 5
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8 Personality: Wounded four times in VIetnam and now a chronicler of that war, retired Special Forces Major Jim Morris is still proud of his service.
10 Arsenal: Designated for WWII service, the propeller-driven 'Spad' was a lifesaver for ground soldiers and downed pilots.
12 Fighting Forces: The Rolling Thunder strategic air campaign was intended to break North Vietna's back.
50 Reviews: Conceived during his convalescent leave in 1965 and revised several times, Jim Morris's War Story has become a Vietnam War classic.
58 Perspectives: A WWII naval officer turned professor found the attitudes of his Vietnam vet students to be similar to his own.
18 Hanoi Hannah Speaks Again: She called herself Thu Houng, 'Fragrance of Autumn,' but as an announcer for Radio Hanoi her job was to chill and frighten, not to charm and seduce.
26 Taking Aim at the B-52s: American B-52 bombers were protected by a wall of electronic jamming. A North Vietnamese general tells how his surface-to-air missiles finally broke through.
34 The War Makers: While the military is responsible for fighting a war, its civilian superiors not only wage war but also determine how it will be fought.
42 Assessing the War's Costs: By any standard the Vietnam War was one of the costliest in the history of the United States, and it cost more than lives and money.
Volume: 8
Issue: 6
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8 Personality: Brave but not foolhardy, Army Captain Lee Morrow knew how to get results in combat.
10 Arsenal: Defoliation was designed to save lives by denying cover to the enemy. But for some, the 'cure' was worse than the problem.
14 Fighting Forces: Resolving the issue of U.S. military personnel still unaccounted for in Southeast Asia is a top priority mater.
54 Review: SEAL Team One hunted VC guerrillas and NVA troops in the swamps of the Rung Sat Special Zone
62 Perspectives: The Vietnamese people are pressuring Hanoi to account for their 300,000 MIAs
22 Controlling the Rung Sat Special Zone: To keep open the crucial shipping channel between Saigon and the South China Sea, control of this dense mangrove swamp was essential.
30 Harvest Moon Medal of Honor Winner: In-country for just two weeks, artillery forward observer Harvey Barnum assumed command of Hotel Company, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines, during a Viet Cong ambush.
38 America's Courageous Canine Corps: First deployed to Vietnam in 1966, Army and Marine scout dogs helped save thousands of lives by altering soldiers to dangers that lay ahead.
46 Ambushed! Gun Trucks in Action: Ambushes were all too common along Route 19, but U.S. Army truckers soon learned how to protect themselves.
Volume: 9
Issue: 3
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8 Personality: After a battle compared to Custer's Last Stand, Staff Sgt. Franklin D. Miller was awarded the Medal of Honor.
10 Arsenal: The de Havillard C-7 Caribou became one of the war's most popular air transports.
12 Fighing Forces: Two Hughes OH-6A 'LOHs' were shot down close to enemy positions, but both crews survived to tell the tale.
52 Reviews: Flawed from the outset, Vietnamese commando raids on North Vietnam were disasters.
58 Perspectives: Does Hollywood's version of Vietnam War music in reality reflect the tastes of those who dodged the war?
18 Fourteen Days at Nhi Ha: Sent north to help Marines who were trying to contain an NVA offensive, the Army's 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry, fought a nightmarish battle in the shadow of the DMZ.
26 Telling It Like It Is: The lies and distortions of 'Vietnam War phonies' dishonor all who served honorably and faithfully there. It's time to set the record straight.
36 The War's 'Constructive Component': Counterinsurgency was the name of the game, but only the Marines made a serious effort to put that theory into practice, creating Combined Action Platoons to 'clear and hold' Vietnamese hamlets.
42 A Civilian in Tet '68: The New Year's celebrations in Saigon had suddenly ended. 'The situation is not good,' wrote Brenda Rosen, one of the American civilians trapped in a city under siege.
Volume: 9
Issue: 5
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8 Personality: Nguyen Van Dong's premonition that 'nobody escapes the Dong' proved to be correct.
10 Fighting Forces: Organized as a Cold War strike force, the 'Sky Soldiers' were instead committed to the hot war in Vietnam.
12 Arsenal: The Combat Development and Test Center had to find out if American technology worked in the jungle.
50 Reviews: Winning over the South Vietnamese people was the pacification program's goal.
56 Perspectives: U.S. complicity in South Vietnam's 1963 coup made it impossible to stay uninvolved in the war.
18 'Sixtys Up!': Mortar men do one thing in the infantry better than anyone else. They hump equipment- carrying heavy loads everywhere riflemen go.
26 Americal Pointman: Henry Miller had to be up front of the platoon, despite the dangers involved. 'If I can see it coming,' he thought to himself, 'then I'll know what I have to do to deal with it.'
36 Fighting the Black Death: Disease was the main battlefield killer until World War II. Researchers and medical teams prevented that from happening in Vietnam.
42 Submarine Special Operations: Although it is not widely known, U.S. Navy submarines conducted a series of special warfare operations along the coast of Vietnam.
Volume: 9
Issue: 6
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8 Fighting Forces: The elite VC and NVA sapper units were among the most feared and effective enemy forces of the war.
12 Arsenal: The RA-5C Vigilante was a potent reconnaissance aircraft.
16 Personality: 'We have to die bravely in the battlefield in front of the enemy,' said Major Chau Minh Kien, who did just that.
54 Reviews: Americans who went to war in Vietnam were affected by 'wars' at home- between races, classes, sexes and generations.
62 Perspectives: It took more than a quarter century for a Navy corpsman's battlefield bravery to be officially recognized.
22 Operation Kingpin Raid: Almost flawless in execution, the daring rescue raid at the Son Tay prison camp deep within North Vietnam lacked only one essential ingredient- POWs.
30 AC-130 Spectre Gunship: With their tremendous firepower, the Lockheed AC-130 Spectre fixed-wing gunships were effective truck killers in the sky.
38 Huey Rescue Mission: Blueghost 39 went into action to help rescue a crewman from Bat-21, a downed Douglas EB-66C- but the Huey's crew soon needed a search team of its own.
46 Rapid Fire Recon Team in Trouble: Two Special Forces recon teams were pinned down by the Viet Cong, but only one could be extracted. A terrible decision had to be made.
Volume: 10
Issue: 1
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8 Personality: Known as the 'Black Lion,' reitred Major Wilbur Greene was an African-American CIA operative in Laos.
10 Arsenal: Navy pilot Kent Vandervelde took part in the first sea-based overland rescue efforts.
16 Fighting Forces: 'Tracers were coming at me from all over the place; most of them looked like they would hit me right between the eyes.'
54 Reviews: A proud veteran who simply did his duty gives an account refreshingly free of cynicism and self-pity.
62 Perspectives: There was a whole theoretical framework behind the 1960s anti-war movement.
22 Zulu Platoon's Final Flight: The SEAL platoon wanted revenge for a wounded comrade. What they almost got was their own annihilation.
30 Man-Made Monsoons: The Weather War: The Popeye project sought to extend the rainy season in the Laotion panhandle- to cause flooding and dny the enemy use of infiltration routes to South Vietnam.
38 Marines Under Fire at Con Thien: By midsummer 1967, the battle near the DMZ had taken on a life of its own. It would not end until the Tet Offensive changed the complexion of the war.
46 Testing the Rules of Engagement: Everyone in Vietnam knew that the restrictions imposed by the rules of engagement were insane, but only two Air Force officers fell on their swords in protest.
Volume: 10
Issue: 4
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8 Personality: The Viet Cong counted on surprise for their seizure of Saigon, but General Fred C. Weyand saw them coming.
10 Arsenal: The AK-47 assault rifle was crude but efficient.
14 Fighting Forces: Although the 273rd Regiment was bloodied trying to take Saigon, it survived to fight another day.
54 Book Reviews: In the histories of the Vietnam War, the Tet Offensive plays a key part.
62 Perspectives: Were the North Vietnamese after the cities, or did they have bigger fish to fry?
73 Vietnam Marketplace: New Reader's service page
22 Turning Point of the War: Lyndon Johnson was psychologically defeated by the Tet Offensive. But he was betrayed as well by his top national security advisers.
30 Airlifters to the Rescue: The NVA thought they could turn Khe Sanh into another Dien Bien Phu. But they hand't figured on the critical difference U.S. air power would make.
38 Faking MACV Out of Position: By provoking remote area border fights at Loc Ninh, Dak To and Khe Sanh, the NVA sought to draw U.S. forces away from the cities of South Vietnam.
46 Blocking The NVA Retreat: While the Marines battled for control of Hue, the Army's 1st Cavalry Division moved in the air to cut the enemy's lines of supply and communication.
Volume: 5
Issue: 5
Item Creation Date: February 1993
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8 Personality: Mild-mannered Joe Marm became known as the war's 'Sergeant York'
10 Fighting Forces: At Kham Duc one afternoon, the big C-130s showed there was more to airlift than carrying cargo
12 Bases and Installations: Tan Song Nhut on the edge of Saigon was America's 'Pentagon East,' but that didn't stop the Viet Cong
52 Arsenal: The Claymore mine became a ubiquitous weapon.
58 Book Reviews: It's a very special memorial on the Virginia banks of the Potomac, and a special book captures its spirit.
20 Troops to Equal Any: One of the saddest legacies of the Vietnam War is the misperception that its American fighting man failed to somehow measure up. As former Vietnam Commanding General Fred C. Weyand says, nothing could be further from the truth.
26 Supply Lines Engaged: Blazing firefights punctuated routine boredom for the sailors, aircrews and Coast Guardsmen of Operation Market Time- the blockade of South Vietnam's coast from supply by the North.
34 The MiGs popping through the overcast expected to meet heavily burdened F-105 'Thuds,' but they instead found a flock of F-4 Phantoms loaded for bear.
42 Guerillas in the Mess Hall: The newly arrived Green Berets didn't like the looks of the American compound at Song Be, a 'safe' provincial capital. Before they could dig in properly, however, the Viet Cong struck...
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8 Peronality: OSS Major Peter Dewey became America's first Vietnam casualty
10 Fighting Forces: Soldiers on the water and sailors on land were typical of the unique Mobile Riverine Force
12 Bases and Installations: The vista today is of Soviet warships, but Cam Ranh Bay was born an American logistics and engineering marvel
50 Arsenal: The SAM war that broke out in 1965 called for new air tactics, equipment- and added measure of pure grit.
56 Book Reviews: In two books, an officer and an NCO take alternative views of everyday life in the field for the 'grunt'
18 Armed Vertical Tactic: Before Vietnam, armed choppers were not in the U.S. inventory- in 1961, though, Major Ivan Slavich took his 20-ship outift into the war as start of a new era
26 Hornet's Nest Tripped: A surpise for both sides was the ferocity of battle as Americans of the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) and North Vietnamese regulars clashed for the first time... at LZ X-Ray.
34 Mighty Machine's Surprise Mission: When SAC's mighty B-52s were called to action in a conventional mode, they were ready and waiting, even if action in South Vietnam would be a far cry from their design role as a nuclear deterrent.
42 Unlimited Expense Account: Still an enigma to many, General Giap and his NVA strategy evolved together in a revolutionary hothouse. And human cost was to be no obstacle.
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8 Personality: Bernard Fall lived the war he wrote about so vividly- and died in it, too
10 Fighting Forces: Survival of others was the job and daily standard for the Air Rescue Service.
12 Bases and Installations: Fire-support base Ripcord was an outpost that soon drew the NVA's most serious attention.
58 Arsenal: Taking the night away from Charlie was accomplished by the Starlight Scope
72 Book Reviews: Marine Captain Bob George had a dream- and 10 years later, the comprehensive multi-volume Vietnam Experience was the result
28 Curbs on Power Base: In the air war, policy rules that meant flying crippled in the skies hurt US capability and frittered away America's enormous air power advantages.
34 Beret Team's Brave Stand: At Nam Dong, Roger Donlon's Special Forces team came under nighttime assault by two reinforced VC battalions- an hours-long ordeal that produced the war's first Medal of Honor
42 Posted at Yankee Station: Not only the technological advances, but politically imposed rules of engagement posed unprecedented tests for the Navy's carrier forces stationed off the Vietnamese coast in seeming position of power and military might.
50 Easter Invasion Repulsed: At An Loc, North Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap thought he saw the chance to strike a killing blow. Instead his Easter Offensive ran into a meatgrinder that decimated his forces and ultimately cost him his job.
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Remembrance of Tet- The Richmond News Leader
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Photocopy Of Article- A Clear Case of Overt Treason; August 14, 1972
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Songs For Rally, Festival Park, March 23, 1991
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Gen. GIap: Kerry's Group Helped Hanoi Defeat U.S.- Newsmax.com
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Newspaper Article, Richmond TImes-Dispatch - The Handwriting on the Canvas - re: Art Beltrone's Vietnam Graffiti Project is salvaging canvas hammocks from troop transport ships
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Author(s): Carlos Santos
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Operation Smile- The Richmond News Leader
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8 Personality: Australian 'Dasher' Wheatley, the first Victoria Cross recipient of the war, put the life of a wounded comrade above his own.
10 Arsenal: From March 1969 to August 1973, at least 380,000 tons of bombs fell 'secretly' on Cambodia.
14 Fighting Forces: Located deep in the Central Highlands, the airfield at Camp Holloway was vital to the conduct of operations in II Corps.
54 Reviews: The Marine Corps' Combined Action Program was a great tactical success, but at the expense of the war's strategic purpose.
62 Perspectives: The strangest missing-in-action case in Indochina may be that of a Japanese 'evil genius with a keen eye for useful mayhem.'
22 Operation Toledo: It was to be a test of combined U.S. and South Vietnamese operations. The results revealed that both sides had much to learn about battlefield integration.
30 A Century of French Conquest in Vietnam: In 1775, Bishop Pigneau de Behaine became the military adviser to the future Emperor Gia Long. Thus began the French takeover of Vietnam.
38 Losing Ground to the Khmer Rouge: While the war in Vietnam wound down in 1973, the war in neighboring Cambodia was going from bad to worse as the Khmer Rouge rose to power despite years of U.S. bombing.
46 Australia's Bombing Magpies: With only eight operational Canberras at any one time, Royal Australian Air Force's No. 2 Squadron flew an incredible 11,963 sorties over Vietnam.
Volume: 7
Issue: 4
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8 Personality: In 1963, Gene DeBruin's C-46 was shot down. Thirty-two years later, his brother continues to search for him.
10 Arsenal: What the Army wanted was a flying deuce-and-a-half, and in 1962 Boeing filled the bill with the CH-47 Chinook cargo helicopter.
12 Fighting Forces: For the Army divers, recovering the bodies of drowned U.S. soldiers was a strange, secret mission.
50 Reviews: After 393 combat helicopter missions, Ron Zaczek had to don masks in order to walk 'chameleonlike' in society.
58 Perspectives: After 10 years he had returned to his beloved Laos, only to witness its fall to the Pathet Lao and their North Vietnamese allies.
18 Mahaxay: Secret POW Rescue in Laos: In the most successful prisoner rescue operation of the Second Indochina War, 54 allied prisoners were liberated in a daring CIA raid on a Loation POW camp.
26 General Giap's Laotion Nemesis: With his gueriila army, Hmong General Vang Pao held the North Vietnamese Army at bay in northern Laos for over a decade.
34 Hmong Guerrillas on the Run: 'When the enemy advances, we retreat' is an axiom of guerrilla war. But that is sometimes easier said than done, as a Hmong band discovered near the Plain of Jars in 1972.
42 Eyes in the Sky Over Vietnam: Precision bombing depended on near cloud-free weather, and meteorological satellites told when conditions were right.
Volume: 8
Issue: 1
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8 Personality: In a bizarre incident, Air Force POW Ed Elias was freed through the propaganda efforst of American collaborators.
12 Arsenal: Necessity is the mother of invention, and the critical need to counter North Vietnam's SAMs brought forth the Wild Weasel.
14 Fighting Forces: The demanding task of the Army PIOs was to see that the GIs' efforts did not go unnoticed.
50 Reviews: Colonel Harry G. Summers, Jr.'s latest Vietnam book provides essential reference maps and historical perspective.
58 Perspectives: While American draft dodgers were fleeing to Canada, some 40,000 Canadians came south to service in the U.S. military
18 Early Evolution of Helicopter Tactics: Although it saw service during the Korean War, the helicopter would come of age in Vietnam as a potent weapon of war.
26 One Tough Marine: Twice wounded in Korea, his left leg lost in a training accident, Donald H. Hamblen would earn two more Purple Hearts in Vietnam.
34 Top Gun in Action: 'Soldiers do in combat what they are in the habit of doing in training.' That axiom also applies to Navy fighter pilots, some of whom received advanced training at the Navy Fighter Weapons School.
42 Shifting Perceptions: A Newsman Goes to War: At first, TV news correspondent Jim Bennett could not come to grips with the fact that the powerful U.S. military machine was unable to overwhelm the enemy.
Volume: 9
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20 LBJ's Strategy for Disengagement: Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker's charge from President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967 was to de-escalate the Vietnam conflict without losing the war.
26 River Rats to the Rescue at Ben Tre: 'It became necessary to destroy the town in order to save it,' one American officer said. But nothing might have been saved at Ben Tre if not for the intervention of Navy PBRs.
34 Operation Hastings Offensive: The NVA's 324B Division crossed the DMZ to 'liberate' Quang Tri province in July 1966. But the U.S. 4th Marine Regiment had a different plan.
42 With Creighton Abrams During Tet: Awakened by nearby gunfire and explosions, General Abrams was outraged to learn he couldn't leave his Saigon quarters. The Tet Offensive had begun.
10 Arsenal: Known as the 'eyes of the fleet,' the Chance Vought RF-8 Crusader was the backbone of Navy combat reconnaissance.
12 Personality: It was only 200 yards to the wounded Marine, but for Navy Corpsman Pat White, pinned down in the Citadel at Hue, it was like 200 miles.
50 Reviews: The best book on the 1968 Tet Offensive was by the Saigon bureau chief of one of America's most liberal newspapers.
56 Perspectives: Using Tet as a cloak for a surprise attack was not new. Nearly two centuries before the 1968 offensive, the Chinese were routed by just such an attack.
58 Fighting Forces: The American adviser thought he knew more than his 'Ruff-Puff' sergeant. He would learn a hard lesson at the sergeant's expense.
Volume: 10
Issue: 5
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United States Marine Corps Personnal Listed as POW, Captured, or Missing in Action in South East Asia 1961-1979- Vietnam Veterans Locator
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Ripley at the Bridge- Newspaper
Document Item Number: 2780208004
[Number of Pages: 1]
Author(s): Ross Mackenzie
Item Creation Date: no date
Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Added: 04 Mar 2007 [Updated: 04 Mar 2007]
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Safer Offers Glimpse of Vietnam - Richmond Times Dispatch, Book Review - re: Morley Safer's book, Flashbacks: On Returning to Vietnam
Document Item Number: 2780203008
[Number of Pages: 1]
Author(s): Ed Crews
Item Creation Date: 20 May 1990
Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Added: 01 Mar 2007 [Updated: 28 Feb 2019]
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Welcome Home and Thank You- Newspaper
Document Item Number: 2780203014
[Number of Pages: 1]
Item Creation Date: no date
Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Added: 01 Mar 2007 [Updated: 01 Mar 2007]
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POW-MIA Vigil Includes Gulf Troops- Richmond News Leader
Document Item Number: 2780214002
[Number of Pages: 1]
Author(s): Steve Knopper
Item Creation Date: 02 February 1991
Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Added: 05 Mar 2007 [Updated: 05 Mar 2007]
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1st UUA National Convention Poem
Document Item Number: 2780207003
[Number of Pages: 8]
Author(s): Steve Maron
Item Creation Date: 01 January 1983
Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Added: 04 Mar 2007 [Updated: 04 Mar 2007]
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Coppinger v. Charles Schantag, Mary Schantag and POW Network- POW Network Newsletter
Document Item Number: 2780207005
[Number of Pages: 3]
Item Creation Date: 10 November 2005
Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Added: 04 Mar 2007 [Updated: 04 Mar 2007]
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POW/MIA Sightings, Denials Called Vicious Cycle- The Richmond News Leader
Document Item Number: 2780203011
[Number of Pages: 1]
Author(s): Martin Romjue
Item Creation Date: 16 November 1991
Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Added: 01 Mar 2007 [Updated: 01 Mar 2007]
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VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States)
Serial Item Number: 278Serial140264
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[Number of Pages: 56]
14 50 Years Ago This Month: Battle of the Bismarck Sea. In a three-day air-sea battle during March 1943, the U.S. 5th Air Force and its Australian allies annihilated a Japanese armada in the Southwest Pacific.
16 Tracking Progress on the POW/MIA Search: Junior Vice Commander-in-Chief 'Gunner' Kent provides a firsthand update on how the search for Americans missing in Indochina is progressing. A sidebar on the Senate report is included.
18 Westmoreland in Vietnam: Twenty years later, former Vietnam troop commander Gen. William Westmoreland offers his judgments on the outcome of the Vietnam War and its aftermath.
20 Vietnam Warriors: A Statistical Profile: Contrary to popular belief, the typical Vietnam serviceman was representative of American society in terms of socio-economic background. And he is proud of his service there.
22 Living Legacies: For the sons and daughters of the Americans listed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, coming together has eased the pain, as last year's Father's Day ceremony showed.
24 Vietnam Vets North of the Border: Though little known, at least 12,000 Canadians served in the U.S. armed forces in Vietnam. Recognition of their sacrifices is long overdue- both in America and at home.
26 America's War in Vietnam: A GI's Combat Chronology: The nation's involvement in Indochina spanned a quarter century. From the advisory period through the ground war to the final missions in 1975, GIs served in a complex conflict. An accompanying color map pinpoints all the major areas of action.
34 Major U.S. Combat Unit Casualties in Vietnam: A breakdown of combat deaths and wounded in action by division and other unit designations.
36 Clebe McClary- Pointman for Disabled Vets: This Marine vet is an inspirational role model for anyone struggling with a disability.
38 Khe Sanh: Hilltop Besieged: The 77-day assault on this Laotian border outpost in 1968 by the North Vietnamese Army was one of the war's pivotal battles.
6 Command Post: VFW and the Vietnam Veteran. For decades, the VFW has advocated the cause of GIs who fought in Southeast Asia.
12 Washington Wire: Legislation: James N. Magill; Service: Frederico Juarbe, Jr.; Security: Kenneth A. Steadman
Volume: 80
Issue: 7
Item Creation Date: March 1993
Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Added: 18 Aug 2003 [Updated: 07 Nov 2025]
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Annual Veterans Reunion to Provide Scholarships to Children of Vietnam Veterans- Tet '68, Inc.
Document Item Number: 2780206002
[Number of Pages: 9]
Item Creation Date: no date
Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Added: 04 Mar 2007 [Updated: 04 Mar 2007]
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The Right Job: A Labor Department Guide for Returning Servicemen - U.S. Department of Labor, Brochure
Document Item Number: 2780217002
[Number of Pages: 7]
Item Creation Date: No Date
Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Added: 13 Feb 2008 [Updated: 10 Jan 2022]
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To a Friend With Cancer- Newspaper
Document Item Number: 2780208003
[Number of Pages: 1]
Author(s): Ross Mackenzie
Item Creation Date: no date
Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Added: 04 Mar 2007 [Updated: 04 Mar 2007]
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Comments About Giap's Statement About John Kerry- Emails
Document Item Number: 2780207011
[Number of Pages: 7]
Item Creation Date: 13 February 2004
Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Added: 04 Mar 2007 [Updated: 04 Mar 2007]
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Pamphlet about Opportunities in the Federal Service for Vietnam Era Veterans
Document Item Number: 2780217001
[Number of Pages: 5]
Item Creation Date: July 1968
Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Added: 13 Feb 2008 [Updated: 13 Feb 2008]
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Vietnam Vets Retain That Special Feeling- Newspaper
Document Item Number: 2780203007
[Number of Pages: 1]
Author(s): Kristie Magnotta
Item Creation Date: no date
Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Added: 01 Mar 2007 [Updated: 01 Mar 2007]
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Colonel Takes Command at College- RIchmond Times Dispatch
Document Item Number: 2780208002
[Number of Pages: 2]
Author(s): Mel Oberg-Olmi
Item Creation Date: no date
Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Added: 04 Mar 2007 [Updated: 04 Mar 2007]
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From Saigon With Love- The Atlanta Journal/ The Atlanta Constitution
Document Item Number: 2780203001

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[Number of Pages: 1]
Author(s): Alan Sverdlik
Item Creation Date: 15 November 1995
Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Added: 01 Mar 2007 [Updated: 01 Mar 2007]
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Westmoreland to Join Veterans in Remembering Tet '68- The Richmond News Leader
Document Item Number: 2780203002
[Number of Pages: 1]
Item Creation Date: 30 January 1988
Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Added: 01 Mar 2007 [Updated: 01 Mar 2007]
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TET '68, A Proactive Veterans Benefit Organization- National Vietnam Veterans Coalition
Document Item Number: 2780206001
[Number of Pages: 2]
Item Creation Date: September 1996
Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Added: 04 Mar 2007 [Updated: 04 Mar 2007]
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List of the 9th Infantry Division Mekong Delta River Raiders in Vietnam 1967-68
Document Item Number: 2780207002
[Number of Pages: 15]
Item Creation Date: 06 January 1994
Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Added: 04 Mar 2007 [Updated: 15 Dec 2009]
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TET '68 20th Annual Reunion Weekend
Document Item Number: 2780216002
[Number of Pages: 6]
Item Creation Date: 02 February 2007
Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Added: 05 Mar 2007 [Updated: 05 Mar 2007]
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We Were the Thunder & Lightning- Newspaper
Document Item Number: 2780203015
[Number of Pages: 1]
Item Creation Date: no date
Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Added: 01 Mar 2007 [Updated: 01 Mar 2007]
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Booklet - Berkeley Plantation and Hundred: Pictorial Presentation of Virginia's Most Historic Plantation (Charles City, Virginia)
Document Item Number: 2780204010
[Number of Pages: 39]
Item Creation Date: 1980
Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Added: 04 Mar 2007 [Updated: 28 May 2020]
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Pamphlet For Arlington National Cemetary
Document Item Number: 2780107004
[Number of Pages: 11]
Item Creation Date: 01 January 1988
Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Added: 20 Oct 2005 [Updated: 20 Oct 2005]
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United States Army Personnel Listed as POW, Captured or Missing in Action in South East Asia 1961 thru 1971- Vietanm Veterans Locator
Document Item Number: 2780202003
[Number of Pages: 18]
Item Creation Date: 10 December 1988
Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Added: 28 Feb 2007 [Updated: 28 Feb 2007]
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United States Navy Personnel Listed as POW, Captured or Missing in Action in South East Asia 1961 thru 1979- Vietnam Veterans Locator
Document Item Number: 2780202005
[Number of Pages: 14]
Item Creation Date: 10 December 1988
Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Added: 28 Feb 2007 [Updated: 28 Feb 2007]
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Command Information Fact Sheet, U.S. Continental Army Command, Fort Monroe, Virginia - On Leaving Active Service: Your Benefits, Rights and Duties
Document Item Number: 2780217005
[Number of Pages: 10]
Item Creation Date: August 1969
Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Added: 13 Feb 2008 [Updated: 24 Oct 2018]
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Capture and Release of SS Mayaguez by Khmer Rouge Forces in May 1975- U.S. Maritime Service Veterans
Document Item Number: 2780207009
[Number of Pages: 7]
Item Creation Date: 05 June 2000
Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Added: 04 Mar 2007 [Updated: 04 Mar 2007]
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