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Publisher/Org.: Varies: Empire ; Primedia ; Cowles ; Weider ; HistoryNet-World

General Note: 1988- / Bimonthly numbering: June-1 ; August-2 ; October-3 ; December-4 ; February-5 ; April-6 / Publisher Varies: Empire, Primedia Enthusiast, Cowles, Weider, HistoryNet-World / Quarterly Summer 1988-Summer 1989

General Note: 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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Citation: Vietnam, 278Serial139941. No Date, William E. Kirkland Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=278Serial139941, Accessed 24 Jan 2026.

Pub Credit Line: 278Serial139941, William E. Kirkland Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive