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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: December 1994

General Note: 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.

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Citation: Vietnam, 278Serial140155. December 1994, William E. Kirkland Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=278Serial140155, Accessed 24 Jan 2026.

Pub Credit Line: 278Serial140155, William E. Kirkland Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive