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Vietnam Magazine
Developed in the 1950s and entering service in 1961 to replace rifle grenades as an infantry platoon support weapon, the M79 single-shot grenade launcher looks like a large-bore sawed-off shotgun and fires a 40 mm grenade. The gun employs...
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Vietnam Magazine
Was the Vietnam War essentially “unwinnable” because of the incorrigibly venal, consistently corrupt and—worst of all—egregiously incompetent South Vietnamese government officials and senior military commanders? Frank...
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HistoryNet, Mag: Vietnam Events, Vietnam Magazine
In the last few days of October 1969, thousands of North Vietnamese Army troops surrounded a small, dangerously isolated firebase defended by about 150 Special Forces–led Montagnard fighters and a handful of American artillerymen....
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HistoryNet, Mag: Vietnam Events, Vietnam Magazine
The Lost Mandate of Heaven: The American Betrayal of Ngo Dinh Diem, President of Vietnam Although Vietnam War historians have been quick to criticize Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon for their...
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HistoryNet, Mag: Vietnam Events, Vietnam Magazine
“I love the smell of napalm in the morning,” Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore (Robert Duvall) commander of the fictional 1st Battalion, 9th Air Cavalry Regiment, famously remarks in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 film Apocalypse Now, and that...
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HistoryNet, Mag: Vietnam Events, Vietnam Magazine
Books and articles about the Vietnam War tend to focus on “the best and brightest,” whether to praise them for superior performance or to criticize them for failures in judgment and not measuring up to their promise. Author and Vietnam...
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HistoryNet, Mag: Vietnam Events, Vietnam Magazine
Just as the horrific 1968 My Lai massacre is the most notorious battlefront incident of the Vietnam War, the May 4, 1970, National Guard shootings at Kent State University—killing four students and wounding nine—is the most notorious...
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HistoryNet, Mag: Media Digest, Mag: Vietnam Events, Vietnam Magazine
After commanding a combat unit for the first seven months of my Vietnam tour, this reviewer was reassigned to Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, as an adviser for my last five months in the country. I received no training, instruction,...
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HistoryNet, Mag: Vietnam Events, Vietnam Magazine
The operative word in the title of James Wright’s superb book is “enduring.” It applies not only to members of all military branches who were “enduring” the horrors of combat alternating with the soul-numbing boredom of an...
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Vietnam Magazine
U.S. Marine tanks and ARVN troops unload on a North Vietnamese battalion. One of the most devastating defeats inflicted upon the North Vietnamese Army by U. S. Marines and their South Vietnamese allies occurred on Aug. 15, 1968, in the...
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HistoryNet, Mag: Vietnam Events
The 1st Battalion of the Big Red One's Black Lions Regiment was called into battle to help a battalion force under NVA attack in An My during the Tet Offensive in 1968....
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Vietnam Magazine
The decision to leave a mortar platoon alone at Hereford on May 21, 1966, sealed the fate of its men and journalist Sam Castan...
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Vietnam Magazine
Criticized for advocating a big-unit war, Gen. Westmoreland launched Cedar Falls in Jan. 1967 to assault a VC bastion...
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Vietnam Magazine
With Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer III in a helicopter above, orchestrating support, Yellow Hair rode again...
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Vietnam Magazine
Joe Galloway takes a hard look at the assessments of Ia Drang by the war's architects in Washington, Saigon and Hanoi: McNamara, Westmoreland, Ho and Giap...
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Vietnam Magazine
Hamburger Hill, where Col. Weldon Honeycutt led a controversial 10-day “meatgrinder” battle to secure Hill 937 only to abandon it a week later, Americans questioned the senseless slaughter. Soon, plans were announced to reduce U.S....
