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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: October 1995

General Note: 8 Personality: For an American teenager in Saigon, Vietnam at first seemed like just another Asian country.
10 Arsenal: Since the Civil War, combat photographers have shown us the reality of the battlefield.
16 Fighting Forces: For those who served in III Corps, Nui Ba Den, the Black Virgin Mountain near Tay Ninh City, was an awe-inspiring sight.
54 Reviews: 'They asked you where you've been and you can't tell them. Over twenty years since you've got lost coming home.'
62 Perspectives: Mosquitoes, leeches, lizards, snakes...there was no shortage of critters to make life miserable for the troops in the field.
22 Marines Under the Gun at Liberty Bridge: An NVA battalion was inside the perimeter of the Marine firebase at Phu Lac, and survival hung in the balance.
30 Operation Footboy: Undercover in the North: Although MACV-SOG spent nine years trying to infiltrate North Vietnam, the result was almost complete failure.
38 Night Spectre Haunts The Ho Chi Minh Trail: The Ho Chi Minh Trail was the main supply route to the southern battlefields, and the crews of AC-130 Spectre gunships were determined to shut it down.
46 An American in the War Before '64: Those who served in Vietnam before the 'official' start of U.S. involvement are truly America's forgotten Vietnam vets.

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Citation: Vietnam, 278Serial140168. October 1995, William E. Kirkland Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=278Serial140168, Accessed 24 Jan 2026.

Pub Credit Line: 278Serial140168, William E. Kirkland Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive