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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: April 1997

General Note: 8 Personality: Nguyen Van Dong's premonition that 'nobody escapes the Dong' proved to be correct.
10 Fighting Forces: Organized as a Cold War strike force, the 'Sky Soldiers' were instead committed to the hot war in Vietnam.
12 Arsenal: The Combat Development and Test Center had to find out if American technology worked in the jungle.
50 Reviews: Winning over the South Vietnamese people was the pacification program's goal.
56 Perspectives: U.S. complicity in South Vietnam's 1963 coup made it impossible to stay uninvolved in the war.
18 'Sixtys Up!': Mortar men do one thing in the infantry better than anyone else. They hump equipment- carrying heavy loads everywhere riflemen go.
26 Americal Pointman: Henry Miller had to be up front of the platoon, despite the dangers involved. 'If I can see it coming,' he thought to himself, 'then I'll know what I have to do to deal with it.'
36 Fighting the Black Death: Disease was the main battlefield killer until World War II. Researchers and medical teams prevented that from happening in Vietnam.
42 Submarine Special Operations: Although it is not widely known, U.S. Navy submarines conducted a series of special warfare operations along the coast of Vietnam.

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Citation: Vietnam, 278Serial140210. April 1997, William E. Kirkland Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=278Serial140210, Accessed 24 Jan 2026.

Pub Credit Line: 278Serial140210, William E. Kirkland Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive