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.

Why Pilots Loved the F-105 “Thud” • Designed to carry a nuclear weapon, the F-105 Thunderchief became the Vietnam War’s most important conventional fighter-bomber.

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Turning Points

MEMORIAL TO REMEMBER AMERICA’S HMONG ALLIES

MIA Chinook Gunner Accounted For

SPRING ’67

RELIC SPOTLIGHT

WORDS FROM THE WAR • Many original official documents have been released to the public by the U.S. National Archives. Engaging with these documents firsthand allows us to see history unfiltered. The following is a Jan. 18, 1946, letter written by Ho Chi Minh to U.S. President Harry Truman.

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DEADLY EMBRACE • HOW COMMUNIST FORCES “HUGGED” U.S. UNITS IN BATTLE

M1911A1 .45 CALIBER AUTOMATIC PISTOL

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THE LAST MISS AMERICA IN VIETNAM • REMEMBERING AN EPIC JOURNEY

G.I. Innovation at “Purple Heart Mountain”

THE ENEMY BELOW THE EARTH • THE “TUNNEL RATS” IN ACTION AT OPERATION CRIMP

Deadly Underground Mazes • The Viet Cong tunneled deep below the earth’s surface, creating spaces where they could live, work, and ambush American troops and their allies. The mazes, rigged with lethal devices, often became death traps for soldiers who entered as well as the VC hidden inside.

PARATROOPER REBELLION • SOUTH VIETNAM’S PRESIDENT DIEM RULED WITH AN IRON FIST. IN 1960, AIRBORNE TROOPS RAIDED HIS PALACE TO TOPPLE HIM FROM POWER

“WE’RE GONNA TAKE YOU HOME” • HOW OPERATION HOMECOMING WAS SPRUNG INTO ACTION TO REPATRIATE AMERICAN POWS

RELICS OF WAR • A PHOTOGRAPHER’S JOURNEY ACROSS VIETNAM WAR BATTLEGROUNDS

DAY OF DOGFIGHTS • U.S. AND NORTH VIETNAMESE ACES CLASHED ON MAY 10, 1972

FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE TO VIETNAM

A Pilot’s Incredible Journey

Saigon’s Last Stand

MAJOR PETER BADCOE • VICTORIA CROSS / SILVER STAR WITH OAK LEAF CLUSTER