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VietnamOperation Bent Penny at 1971 May Day ProtestPublished: August 24, 2011 at 11:00 am
How a Vietnam vet ended up working undercover for Nixon's secret plan to disrupt an antiwar rally in Washington
Letters from Readers - August 2011 - Vietnam magazinePublished: August 08, 2011 at 9:31 pm
Unique Insights into Storied Images
I immensely enjoyed your story "One Wild Ride for Yankee Papa 10" by Paul Gregoire (April). As a longtime historian of the Vietnam War, I've always been fascinated by Larry Burrows' legendary Life magazine photos …
Letter from Vietnam magazine - August 2011Published: August 08, 2011 at 9:03 pm
The cost of bringing our wars home
Last April, in Benghazi, Libya, two photographers covering the brutal war boiling over in North Africa were killed in a mortar blast as they followed rebels repelling an attack by government forces. Tim …
DVD Review - Our Vietnam GenerationPublished: August 08, 2011 at 4:46 pm
Our Vietnam Generation is a documentary film containing oral histories of Michigan's Vietnam War veterans, as well as interviews with family members and academics. The DVD also contains a tour of today's Vietnam.
Operation Attleboro-From Calamity to Crushing VictoryPublished: July 20, 2011 at 2:24 pm
A green brigade's unexpected and costly encounter in early November 1966 stopped a major enemy offensive dead in its tracks.
How to Steal a Navy and Save 30,000 RefugeesPublished: June 28, 2011 at 4:32 pm
During the evacuation of Saigon, the USS Kirk received a surprising radio message to turn around and head back to Vietnam
Book Review - No Sure Victory, by Gregory A. DaddisPublished: June 28, 2011 at 3:15 pm
The measurement problem involved in assessing counterinsurgency "success" was never solved in Vietnam, though the Army produced 14,000 pounds of reports daily.
Book Review - Binding Their Wounds: America's Assault on Its Veterans, by Robert J. Topmiller and T. Kerby NeillPublished: June 28, 2011 at 3:07 pm
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.
DVD Review - Wartorn 1861-2010, from exec. prod. James GandolfiniPublished: June 28, 2011 at 3:05 pm
Wartorn goes back to our nation's deadliest war, to letters written by Pennsylvania rifleman Angelo Creapsey describing his despair, and shows how in a century and a half we've barely moved off the dime to address the issue of PTSD.
DVD Review - Wisconsin Vietnam War StoriesPublished: June 28, 2011 at 3:03 pm
Vietnam War Stories is a collection of oral histories by Wisconsin's Vietnam War veterans, complimented with a selection of historic film footage. The DVD offers a good overview of the history of the Vietnam War.
Interview with Steve Maxner: Perserving veterans' past for the futurePublished: June 14, 2011 at 10:27 am
Steve Maxner, director of the Vietnam Center and Archive at Texas Tech, has seen the Oral History Project grow to over 1,000 interviews
Rolling Thunder XXIVPublished: June 13, 2011 at 3:37 pm
Watch Vietnam magazine's highlights from Rolling Thunder 2011
Rolling Thunder 2011Published: June 09, 2011 at 5:14 pm
Rolling Thunder Final Cut from Vietnam Magazine on Vimeo.…
Book Review - F-105 Wild Weasel vs SA-2 SAM, by Peter DaviesPublished: May 25, 2011 at 5:59 pm
The electronic conflict pioneered by the Wild Weasel vs the Guideline SAM during the Vietnam War laid the groundwork for a new form of air-ground warfare that is still evolving today
Ho, Giap and OSS Agent Henry PrunierPublished: May 24, 2011 at 2:17 pm
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"
Letter from Vietnam magazine - June 2011Published: May 12, 2011 at 12:14 pm
An intergenerational brotherhood
The war in Vietnam ended nearly four decades ago, but for some veterans their war lasted much longer and for many it has never come to a close. Beyond physical wounds that have dogged so many, the …
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