General Note: Frequency Varies / Subtitle: Veterans of Foreign Wars Magazine / Varying Title: VFW Magazine

Publication: August 1995

General Note: Features
50 Years Ago This Month: Luzon: Last Leg to Victory by Richard K. Kolb

Strategic Air Offensive Against Japan: Reaping the Whirlwind by Gary L. Bloomfield

Dropping the Atomic Bomb Was the Right Thing to Do by Herbert M. Mason, Jr.

Why Truman Dropped the Bomb

Preserving the Memory of a Mission by Timothy K. Dyhouse

Lost in Laos by Richard K. Kolb - JTF-FA Detachment 3, based in Vientiane, works in some of Indochina’s most difficult terrain. Phou Pha Thi Mountain is a prime example of where obstacles were overcome to accomplish the mission.

VFW Overseas Outpost:Thailand by Richard K. Kolb - Post 9951 in Bangkok serves as a shining example of what VFW members are doing to make the organization visible in foreign lands. ‘Railroad of Death.’ Vets of several nations are working to assure that the deaths along the Burma Railway are remembered.

‘Thank You, America’: Czech Republic Commemorates Its Liberation by Richard K. Kolb

Get Ready for the Convention of Your Life

Columns
Command Post
Washington Wire
VFW in Action

Departments
Mail Call
Now Hear This
Member Benefits
General Orders
Membership
Claims
Reunions

Perma Link: https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=3122Serial615476

Citation: VFW, 3122Serial615476. No Date, Lawrence D. McDougal Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=3122Serial615476, Accessed 25 Jan 2026.

Pub Credit Line: 3122Serial615476, Lawrence D. McDougal Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive