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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: June 1991

General Note: 8 Personality: Sergeant David Maurer had 'seen the elephant,' but he still volunteered to lead a Special Forces recon team.
10 Arsenal: With their accurized M-14 rifles and Starlight scopes, Army snipers exacted a deadly toll.
12 Fighting Forces: South Vietnamese brown-water Swift boats and blue-watter cutters made a formidable maritime force.
50 Book Reviews: The 'Green Berets' of the U.S. Army's Special Forces came of age during the Vietnam War.
58 Perspectives: One thing all in-country Vietnam veterans have in common is the Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medial with '60-' device.
18 Running Hazardous Highways: The lifeline for the Central Highlands ran along Route 19 and through the Mang Yang Pass. IT was the highwaymen's job to keep it open.
26 Something to Give: Caring for the wounded under enemy fire at the 12th Evac at Cu Chi, the focus was on the living, not on the horrors of war.
34 Junction City Shoot-Out: A multidivisional attack into War Zone C by II Field Force caught the enemy by surprise and cost him more than 2700 of his best soldiers.
42 Tragic Postlude to 'Peace': To be an enemy of the United States could be discomforting; to be a friend, as the Republic of Vietnam found to its sorrow, could prove fatal.

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Citation: Vietnam, 278Serial140050. June 1991, William E. Kirkland Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=278Serial140050, Accessed 24 Jan 2026.

Pub Credit Line: 278Serial140050, William E. Kirkland Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive