Vietnam

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.

Vietnam • DECEMBER 2021 VOL. 34, NO. 4

The Story Behind the Photo

Vietnam War Museum Underway in Texas

A CONTROVERSIAL QUESTION • A SERIES EXAMINING CONTENTIOUS ISSUES OF THE VIETNAM WAR

‘Songs of War’ • Author Don Purdy details the challenges and rewards of describing his war in poetry

Fan Favorites 1971 • What the Vietnam War generation was watching, reading and listening to 50 years ago

TO KILL OR NOT TO KILL • A YOUNG U.S. INFANTRYMAN FACED A DECISION WHEN HE SAW A YOUNG VIET CONG WALKING ALONE

THE MARK 18 40 MM GRENADE LAUNCHER

NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1971

BATTLEFRONT

BRUTAL STRUGGLE IN THE HEDGEROWS OF 506 VALLEY • HEAVY CASUALTIES, STUNNING COURAGE—INISDE A CAV COMPANY’S FEROCIOUS BATTLE TO CLEAR NVA BUNKERS

Valor Awards

VIETNAM’S RIVER PATROL BOATS • NAVY’S SMALL BOATS PACKED A LOT OF SPEED AND FIREPOWER

FRANCE’S FIRST DISASTER IN VIETNAM • IN 1950, THE VIETNAMESE ROUTED THE FRENCH IN CHINESE BORDER BATTLES

FIGHTERS OF THE MOUNTAINS • IN 1961, CIA AND SPECIAL FORCES ACTIONS IN THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS WERE A TESTING GROUND FOR U.S. COUNTERINSURGENCY STRATEGY

AIR FORCE SPECIAL OPS SQUADRONS • AN ARRAY OF SPECIALIZED UNITS TOOK ON SOME OF THE WAR’S MOST DANGEROUS MISSIONS

A MARINE WHO MADE THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE AND WHY HE DID IT

CIA’s Secrets in Laos Brought Into Light

Army Pilot Recalls Fights in Vietnam—and With Pentagon

ACE ALAN COZZALIO • COWBOY RODE HIS CAVALRY COPTER TO THE RESCUE