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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.

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Vietnam • DECEMBER 2019 VOL. 32, NO. 4

Rear-Echelon Positions

REMAINS OF VIETNAM WAR PILOT FLOWN HOME, BY HIS SON

Blue Water Navy Benefits Enshrined in Law

Vietnam Takes Steps to Preserve Ho Chi Minh Corpse

Hispanic Group Wants Fort Hood Renamed for Vietnam War Hero

FAREWELL

THANKSGIVINGS IN VIETNAM • One as a U.S. soldier in 1967, the other as a tourist in 2018

TYPE 63-1: CHINA’S AMPHIBIOUS TANK

NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1969

BATTLEFRONT

BOXED IN • Marine reconnaissance team Box Score’s fight for survival

Valor Awards

READING HO’S MIND • How Ho Chi Minh developed his thoughts and theories on war

Operation Pocket Money • Mining Haiphong Harbor in May 1972 closed the North Vietnamese port to Soviet and Chinese suppliers for the rest of the war

Bringing the Past to the Present • Historic Army fort showcases the Vietnam War

A League of Their Own • POW wives put spotlight on husbands’ suffering

TWO-FOR-ONE SPECIAL!

THE WAR’S ENDURING CONTROVERSIES GET A FRESH LOOK

Vietnamese Peasants Took on Elite French Force

Sikorsky HR2S-1/CH-37C Deuce, H-37A/CH-37B Mojave Heavy-Lift Helicopter

MiG-17/19 Aces of the Vietnam War

JAMES W. ROBINSON JR. • He put himself first—in the line of fire