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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: April 1991

General Note: 8 Personality: The North Vietnamese thought they had Alpha 1/9 cornered. They hadn't counted on the courage of Marine Lieutenant Wes Fox.
10 Fighting Forces: The rapid-firing 8-inch guns of the USS Newport News could put out the fire.
12 Arsenal: From punji stakes to 500-pound bombs, booby traps were the killers and maimers of the Vietnam War.
50 Book Reviews: Was the Phoenix Program a cover for assassination of effective counterinsurgency?
58 Perspectives: The combat artists of the Vietnam War set out to capture the emotions of the battlefield on canvas.
18 Terrible Swift Sword: From a teacher of history to its maker, for a quarter-century General Vo Nguyen Giap dominated the Indochina battlefield.
26 Enemy Supple Lines Assaulted: The Viet Cong thought their inland waterway supply lines from Cambodia were safe from attack. But the brown-water Navy soon proved otherwise.
34 A Legacy of Honor: Twice wounded in action, awarded the Navy Cross, the Silver Star and two Bronze Stars for bravery, author Jim Webb was and is a Marine's Marine.
42 The Death of Groupe Mobile 100: The Bataillons de Coree won three U.S. Presidential Unit Citations for bravery in Korea, but they would not survive the First Indochina War.

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Citation: Vietnam, 278Serial140044. April 1991, William E. Kirkland Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=278Serial140044, Accessed 24 Jan 2026.

Pub Credit Line: 278Serial140044, William E. Kirkland Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive