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Me and Bobbie at LZ Dolly.(Letter to the editor)
Vietnam; 2/1/2010; 465 words; ...through some pictures recently I came across one of Bobbie when she visited my unit, but...when I clicked through the pictures to the one titled "At LZ Dolly with the 1st Cav...expected because it startled her. Her visit is one of the good memories of my experience in...

The many faces of Chieu Hoi.(Letter to the editor)
Vietnam; 2/1/2010; 445 words; ...reminded me of when I was an S2 scout in a 3rd Marine Division infantry company in 1968-69 and worked with two Kit Carson Scouts. One of them, Tran Van Bay, had been in the North Vietnamese Army and was with us for the last six months I was there. Beyond a...

The SA-7 grail: man-portable missile packs a punch.(ARSENAL)
Vietnam; 2/1/2010; 914 words; ...use of SA-7s in South Vietnam came in May 1972 when one downed an O-2A observation plane and then several...Grails downed 10 AH-1 Cobras, dozens of UH-1 Hueys, one TA-4 Skyhawk and one AC-130. The SA-7 is the reason all of today's...

Jan Scruggs: not just another brick in The Wall.(Interview)
Vietnam; 2/1/2010; 1995 words; ...followed, Scruggs had a dream, and from day one of the unveiling of the Vietnam Veterans...s past is past. Everyone needs to know one thing, the more time you spend in the past...exceptional monument, not just a regular one. How did a memorial for Vietnam War vets...

Teddy Suhren's last patrol: long-lost photographs document the final mission of a U-boat rebel.(submarine skipper Reinhard "Teddy" Suhren)(Cover story)
World War II; 1/1/2010; 4962 words; ...symbol 3X, signifying three black cats. One black cat was considered bad luck but three...leadership. "He was an original," observed one of his own former skippers, Hans Rudolf Rosing. "There was but one Teddy Suhren." The U-564 was one of...