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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: February 1996

General Note: 8 Personality: His back broken in a helicopter crash, Medal of Honor winner Fred Zabitosky risked his life to rescue the crew.
10 Arsenal: Republic Aircraft's F-105 Thunderbird, better known as the 'Thud,' was the Air Force's warhorse in Vietnam.
12 Fighting Forces: The U.S. Navy patrol vessels of Task Forces 115, 116 and 117 played a key role in the war.
50 Reviews: After 30 years of propaganda about the 'heroic people's army,' two NVA soldiers tell what it was really like in the Communist ranks.
58 Perspectives: Lessons learned in the savage battles of the 1972 Eastertide Offensive were to pay off at the Battle of Khafji almost two decades later.
18 The Story Behind the McNamara Line: Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara deluded himself in thinking that North Vietnamese infiltration could be stopped with electronic wizardry.
26 An Engineer's Mekong Delta Memoir: What with mines and mortars and booby traps, war was still hell, even at a Mekong Delta 'rear-echelon' construction site.
34 Swift Boats in Operation Market Time: Before 1965, 70 percent of enemy supplies were being infiltrated by sea. But Operation Market Time cut that flow to a trickle.
42 Flying the Sea Knight: 'You came swooping out of the sky like an angel of death.... You could see the enemy...you could even make out their faces.'

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Citation: Vietnam, 278Serial140179. February 1996, William E. Kirkland Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=278Serial140179, Accessed 24 Jan 2026.

Pub Credit Line: 278Serial140179, William E. Kirkland Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive