Vietnam Magazine Presents the full & true stories from America’s most controversial & divisive war. Vietnam is the only magazine exclusively devoted to telling the full story of the Vietnam war, with gripping firsthand accounts and carefully researched articles by Vietnam war veterans of the conflict and top military historians.
The Guns of the ‘Mighty Midgets’ • American LCS gunboats were pound for pound the most heavily armed ships in the Pacific during World War II.
Vietnam
HENRY KISSINGER’S COMPLEX LEGACY
SPRING ’70
Statement of the President in Announcing a Program for the Return of Vietnam Era Draft Evaders and Military Deserters
Proposed Medals for Medevacs and Hmong Warriors
RELIC SPOTLIGHT
BURNING THE ENEMY OUT • HOW FOREST FIRES WERE USED AS A WEAPON IN VIETNAM
Editor’s Note
RA-5C VIGILANTE RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT
HOW MY FATHER BUILT BRIDGES IN VIETNAM • T.W. DANIELS STRIVED TO IMPROVE THE LIVES OF LOCAL VILLAGERS
Firefighting At Tay Ninh • DISASTER LOOMED WHEN THE ENEMY SABOTAGED A FUEL TANK
SEARCH AND DESTROY • IN 1966, OPERATION MASHER AIMED TO BREAK COMMUNIST FORCES AFTER THE BATTLE OF THE IA DRANG VALLEY. WAS IT EFFECTIVE?
A TALE OF TWO COMMANDS • HOW DISREGARD FOR UNIT IDENTITY AFFECTED MORALE IN VIETNAM
CHEMICAL OPERATIONS IN VIETNAM • HOW CHEMICALS WERE USED TO SUPPORT AN ARRAY OF FRONTLINE MISSIONS
KEEPING AN EYE ON THE ENEMY • RECONNAISSANCE MISSIONS PROVIDED CRITICAL INTELLIGENCE THROUGHOUT THE WAR
HUNTING THE VIET CONG
Rise of the Seventh Fleet
Cockpit View of Famed Fighter
Top Gunships
An Enduring Brotherhood
ALFRED V. RASCON • THIS MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENT SERVED IN VIETNAM, IRAQ, AND AFGHANISTAN