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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 1995

General Note: 8 Personality: In 1963, Gene DeBruin's C-46 was shot down. Thirty-two years later, his brother continues to search for him.
10 Arsenal: What the Army wanted was a flying deuce-and-a-half, and in 1962 Boeing filled the bill with the CH-47 Chinook cargo helicopter.
12 Fighting Forces: For the Army divers, recovering the bodies of drowned U.S. soldiers was a strange, secret mission.
50 Reviews: After 393 combat helicopter missions, Ron Zaczek had to don masks in order to walk 'chameleonlike' in society.
58 Perspectives: After 10 years he had returned to his beloved Laos, only to witness its fall to the Pathet Lao and their North Vietnamese allies.
18 Mahaxay: Secret POW Rescue in Laos: In the most successful prisoner rescue operation of the Second Indochina War, 54 allied prisoners were liberated in a daring CIA raid on a Loation POW camp.
26 General Giap's Laotion Nemesis: With his gueriila army, Hmong General Vang Pao held the North Vietnamese Army at bay in northern Laos for over a decade.
34 Hmong Guerrillas on the Run: 'When the enemy advances, we retreat' is an axiom of guerrilla war. But that is sometimes easier said than done, as a Hmong band discovered near the Plain of Jars in 1972.
42 Eyes in the Sky Over Vietnam: Precision bombing depended on near cloud-free weather, and meteorological satellites told when conditions were right.

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Citation: Vietnam, 278Serial140161. June 1995, William E. Kirkland Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=278Serial140161, Accessed 24 Jan 2026.

Pub Credit Line: 278Serial140161, William E. Kirkland Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive