A green brigade’s unexpected and costly encounter in early November 1966 stopped a major enemy offensive dead in its tracks.
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How to Steal a Navy and Save 30,000 Refugees
During the evacuation of Saigon, the USS Kirk received a surprising radio message to turn around and head back to Vietnam
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Book Review – No Sure Victory, by Gregory A. Daddis
The measurement problem involved in assessing counterinsurgency “success” was never solved in Vietnam, though the Army produced 14,000 pounds of reports daily.
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Book Review – Binding Their Wounds: America’s Assault on Its Veterans, by Robert J. Topmiller and T. Kerby Neill
A teenaged corpsman, Topmiller survived the carnage of Khe Sanh, but ministering to dead and dying Marines for 2 1/2 months affected him for the rest of his life.
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Interview: Steve Maxner / Perserving veterans’ past for the future
Steve Maxner, director of the Vietnam Center and Archive at Texas Tech, has seen the Oral History Project grow to over 1,000 interviews.
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Jim Gavin: The General Who Jumped First
This leader never asked his men to do something he wouldn’t—and didn’t—do himself.
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Ho, Giap and OSS Agent Henry Prunier
During WWII, Henry Prunier parachuted into Indochina as part of an OSS mission to “give training to a ‘Mr. Hoo’s’ (Ho Chi Minh’s) insurgent forces”
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Rise and Fall of the Dragon Lady
Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu’s venom and vengeance set the stage for disaster and quagmire.
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Interview: Joe Galloway / Soldier’s Reporter Speaks His Mind
His unyielding commitment to truth, and to Vietnam vets, is as solid as ever.
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Rags to Redemption – The Combat Paper Project
How beating their uniforms into a pulp is helping combat veterans reclaim and reframe their war experiences.