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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 1995

General Note: 8 Personality: Training dogs to detect land mines in Vietnam, Charles Fasanaro discovered he was neither a man of peace nor a man of war.
12 Fighting Forces: The Special Forces camp at Tong Le Chon was under siege, and the Nha Trang Mike Forces came flying to the rescue.
16 Arsenal: With 'torpedoes,' ladders, and then the rope, Marine aviators came up with ways of getting recon scouts out of harm's way.
54 Reviews: Is Robert McNamara's In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam historical fact- or revisionist history?
62 Perspectives: Disney's Operation Dumbo Drop dramatized a real-life compassionate mission.
22 Night of the Coffin Search: There was more to being a CIA operative in Vietnam than being a spy. Sometimes you had to be a funeral director, too.
30 Twilight of the Troopship: Four air transports and 40 airmen could have done in a week's time what USNS General William Wiegel took seven weeks and 125 men to do.
38 Interview: Assault Helicopter Pilot: When the LRPs of the 101st Airborne Division heard the call sign 'Kingsmen,' they knew that help would not be long in arriving.
46 NVA Surprise at Fire Support Base Mary Ann: By 1971, almost half the Army had withdrawn from Vietnam. But as the soldiers at Fire Support Base Mary Ann found out, the war was not yet over.

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Citation: Vietnam, 278Serial140172. December 1995, William E. Kirkland Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=278Serial140172, Accessed 24 Jan 2026.

Pub Credit Line: 278Serial140172, William E. Kirkland Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive