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Media Digest | Vietnam War Officer’s Ideas Changed Postwar Army

Former U.S. Army armor officer Mike Guardia has made the most of his second career as an insightful military biographer. The talented author of a 2013 book about Vietnam War...
Vietnam’s Wild Weasels

A band of daring fliers team up in a classified program to take out the radars guiding their biggest threat—Soviet SA-2 Guideline missiles. Like many American boys who had grown...
VIDEO: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Discuss New Vietnam Documentary

The Vietnam War, a documentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, premieres Sunday, Sept. 17, at 8 p.m. on PBS. In an interview with Vietnam magazine, Burns and Novick...
Valor | John Lee Levitow

Air Force AC-47 gunships, called “Spooky” and “Puff the Magic Dragon,” prowled the skies over South Vietnam during the dangerous hours of darkness when grunts on the...

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Life as an Air America CIA Pilot in Vietnam

In September 1964, Neil Hansen began his adventure as a pilot with Air America—the CIA’s secret airline—working clandestine operations in Southeast Asia....
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Valor | Sgt. Richard Loy Etchberger

He died saving fellow airmen on a secret mission. And fellow airmen campaigned to get him an MOH delayed for decades....
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Arsenal | F-100D Super Sabre (Hun)

On April 16, 1961, six F-100D Super Sabres deployed to Thailand’s Don Muang Air Field, initiating the fighter-bomber’s 10-year deployment to Indochina. The plane was North American Aviation’s successor to its F-86 Sabre, famous for...
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The Capture of Hamburger Hill

In May 1969, U.S. soldiers paid a heavy price in America’s last great combat assault of the war. Was it worth it?...
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‘They Gave Me the Last Rites’

Seriously wounded Army infantryman Doug Greenlaw now leads the Purple Heart organization, dedicated to all who spilled blood for their country....
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North Vietnamese Bridge Took Seven Years to Destroy

The road and railway bridge at Thanh Hoa south of Hanoi spanned the Ma River and was a vital link in the movement of communist troops and supplies. For the better part of a decade, U.S. Navy, Marine and Air Force aviators braved the...
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The Revolt of the Montagnards

South Vietnam’s treatment of its largest minority after a 1964 uprising weakened an alliance crucial to defeating the communists...
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The Doom Patrol: Eight Marines on a Suicide Mission in Vietnam

In February 1968, eight Marines volunteered for a suicide mission...


	
	
		
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