How different was the Korean War U.S. Army from the World War II model? Not as much as you might think.
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A Tale of Two Wars: World War II and Korea
One moment you’re an army riding high, winning the greatest war of all time. A few short years later, you’re having big troubles in the field. Some thoughts on the U.S. Army in World War II and the Korean War.
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Book Review – Beyond the Killing Fields, War Writing, by Sydney Schanberg
Beyond the Killing Fields is a compilation of Sidney Schanberg’s war reporting, including dispatches from Cambodia as the Khmer Rouge closed in. Schanberg presents his evidence that American POWs and MIAs who survived the war were left behind
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Book Review – The 9th Infantry Division in Vietnam: Unparalleled and Unequaled, by Maj. Gen. Ira A. Hunt Jr. (Ret.)
The 9th Infantry Division in Vietnam by Ira Hunt addresses its sniper program, problems of weapons retrieval and collateral damage, and offers insights to the 9th ID’s pioneering of tactical innovations and its trouble operating in the Mekong Delta
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Letter from Vietnam magazine – October 2010
Longest war no more The Vietnam War remains representative of many things in American […]
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My War – Army Medic George Banda
George Banda served as a medic with 2nd Battalion, 501st Infantry, 101st Airborne Division in Quang Tri during the Vietnam War. On May 6, 1970, he lost almost his entire recon platoon in a jungle firefight and tried to save his friend Ed Veser
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Vietnam Helmet Art
Soldiers and Marines personalized their combat helmets during the Vietnam War by decorating them with words, pictures and drawings. This photo gallery shows some of the more artistic helmets.
Vietnam Magazine Bulletin Board & Calendar of Events
If you have an event to post, e-mail it to vietnam@weiderhistorygroup.com. Please make the […]
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Book Review – Cash on Delivery: CIA Special Operations During the Secret War in Laos, by Thomas Leo Briggs
Thomas Briggs’ personal memoir, Cash on Delivery, gives a rare and valuable glimpse into American involvement in the little-publicized secret war in southern Laos, Military Region III, where covert U.S. and Lao activities have been largely unreported
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F-105D Thunderchief: One Heavy War Horse
During the Vietnam War, the F-105D Thunderchief flew more than 20,000 missions, accounting for more than 75 percent of all U.S. bombing sorties between 1965-1972. It suffered the highest loss rate of any plane that flew over North Vietnam.