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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 2001

General Note: 18 John Paul Vann's Reluctant Tiger: Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann and his ARVN counterpart, Colonel Huynh Van Cao, fought each other as much as the VC.
26 Da Nang Seabee Base Destroyed: A runaway grass fire near Dan Nang touched off a series of explosions at an ammunition supply point, nearly obliterating all of Camp Hoover's 146 buildings.
34 Combat Tracker Teams: Dogging An Elusive Enemy: Trained by New Zealand's elite Special Air Services, Combat Tracker Teams were intended to give American units a decisive edge over VC in the jungle.
44 'You Never Know Until You Try': Marine Lance Corporal Roy Wheat, a Mississippian who earned the Medal of Honor in Vietnam, was a common soldier but an uncommon man.
12 Personality: F-4 Phantom 'Gunfighter' Major Frederick W. Hess, Jr., was lost on a defoliation mission over the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
14 Fighting Forces: In the summer of 1967, Marines staged an 'American fire drill' in Thua Thien province.
16 Arsenal: The Soviet-designed RPD was the NVA's principal counterpart to the American M-60 squad machine gun during the Vietnam War.
50 Reviews: New research lends more weight to the argument that the First and Second Indochina wars were really part of the same campaign by Ho Chi Minh.
58 Perspectives: War Zone C's Black Virgin Mountain contains an unsolved mystery.

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Citation: Vietnam, 1452Serial216429. October 2001, Gary Noller Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=1452Serial216429, Accessed 05 Feb 2026.

Pub Credit Line: 1452Serial216429, Gary Noller Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive