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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

Existence: August 1990

General Note: 8 Fighting Forces: With its tanks, helicopters and ACAV fighting vehicles, the 11th Armored Cavalry was an army unto itself.
10 Personality: Escape and evasion was not mind when he volunteered for the Hue City Police.
16 Arsenal: The Korean War veteran Spads were old and slow, but they more than held their own in Vietnam.
54 Book Reviews: When Morley Safer of CBS returned to Vietnam in 1989, he found a country in shambles and a revolution betrayed.
62 Perspectives: Each year more than a thousand veterans groups get together to renew wartime friendships.
22 Morale High as the Clouds: When Abu Company's troopers went into battle they had a secret weapon: the moral support of the citizens of the city of San Mateo, Calif.
28 Crouching Beast Cornered: Who would control the A Shau Valley? Hamburger Hill was the key.
38 Three Days on the Run: Loc Ninh had fallen to the NVA's Eastertide Offensive. For the American advisers at Fire Base South, the only way out was through enemy lines.
46 The Bufs Go Downtown: The North Vietnamese thought they had America over a barrel. But the United States still had one more card to play.

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Citation: Vietnam, 278Serial140013. August 1990, William E. Kirkland Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=278Serial140013, Accessed 24 Jan 2026.

Pub Credit Line: 278Serial140013, William E. Kirkland Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive