Based on the Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation, the EC-121 Warning Star carried the long-range and height-finding radars required to provide coverage and warning to U.S. aircraft operating over North Vietnam
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Book Review – Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency From Ford to Obama, by Marvin and Deborah Kalb
Some historical perspective on the different ways that “Vietnam” has influenced the Oval Office
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Vietnam Vets Screened Footage for “Vietnam in HD” Film Project
A small group of Vietnam vets joined a film production crew as “interns” last […]
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Book Review: Broken Bodies, Shattered Minds / A Medical Odysssey From Vietnam to Afghanistan
Spells out the medical consequences of war, from the Civil War to today’s fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, where more veterans are surviving but with more serious wounds
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Book Review – In the Company of Marines: A Surgeon Remembers Vietnam, by James O. Finnegan, M.D.
A young surgeon experienced the war in Vietnam intently, and his poignant stories shed light on the reality of a doctor’s war
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Book Review – The 14-Hour War: Valor on Koh Tang and the Recapture of the SS Mayaguez, by James E. Wise Jr. and Scott Baron
The ingredients that combined to create the Mayaguez disaster, the “last battle of the Vietnam War,” following the fall of Saigon
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Letter from Vietnam magazine
X-Ray Visions When Bill Beck saw the December 2010 issue of Vietnam and our […]
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My War – Andrew W. Thundercloud
As a Marine corpsman, Andrew Thundercloud kept a promise he made to himself when it was his turn to go home
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‘Vietnam in HD’ Premiers on HISTORY
HISTORY presents a new three-part, six-hour series “Vietnam in HD,” which premiers November 8 at 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
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The Truth About Lies in Vietnam
In an excerpt from What It Is Like to Go to War, author Karl Marlantes lays out his rationale for lying in Vietnam