A Hundred Feet Over Hell, by Jim Hooper, presents firsthand accounts of men of 220th Recon Airplane Company who flew close tactical reconnaissance in Cessna O-1 Bird Dogs over I Corps at the DMZ, calling in artillery and airstrikes, 1968-69
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Book Review – Vietnam Declassified: The CIA and Counterinsurgency, by Thomas L. Ahern Jr.
Vietnam Declassified: The CIA and Counterinsurgency, by Thomas L. Ahern Jr., is about the CIA’s role in rural pacification operations in Vietnam, 1954-75. Ahern focuses on the struggle to suppress the Viet Cong and win the loyalty of the peasantry
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The RPG-7: Carried by Infantry in the People’s Army of Vietnam
The RPG-7 is a recoilless muzzle-loaded, shoulder-fired antitank weapon that fires a fin-stabilized rocket shaped like a warhead.
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My War – Helicopter Pilot John Dean
John Dean, an aircraft commander flying slicks with the 121st Assault Helicopter Company, recalls a day in late 1967 when he made 15 trips to haul out 36 wounded from the 199th Light Infantry Brigade who had been in a firefight near Long Binh
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Letter from Vietnam magazine – August 2010
A stormy, stormy spring When President Richard Nixon took to the airwaves on the […]
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Letter from Vietnam magazine – June 2010
Respect, reflection and Rolling Thunder Thirty-five years ago, the last act in a long […]
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My War – Clarinetist John Samuel Tieman
John Tieman, a clarinetist with the 4th Infantry Division Band during the 1970s, played gigs across II Corps during the day, and in the nighttime served guard duty at the base camp, Camp Radcliff, at An Khe in the Central Highlands
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Test Vietnam Review
In Country: Remembering the Vietnam War, edited by John Prados, Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, […]
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World Airways’ Audacious Vietnam Baby Airlift
Ed Daly, president of World Airways, turned a DC-8 into a “flying crib” in Operation Baby Airlift to rescue over 50 Vietnamese orphans in April 1975.
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Found: Lost Dog Tags in Vietnam – Genuine or Fake?
Researchers from Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) investigate the dog tag trade in Vietnam to determine if dog tags are genuine or fake. JPAC’s Dog Tag Project is attempting to reunite lost dog tags with their owners or family members.