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Khe Sanh
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The battle from inside a
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Enemy commando
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‘secret’ CIA site
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U.S. military doctors
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civilian lives
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FEBRUARY
2021
ON THE COVER
A Marine in a bunker at Khe
Sanh focuses his binoculars
on communist positions in
March 1968 during a siege
of the base.
BETTMANN/GETTY IMAGES; INSET:
RICHARD E. AARON/REDFERNS/GETTY
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High on a mountain in Laos
the CIA set up a radar site
to help U.S. planes on
bombing missions near
Hanoi. The North
Vietnamese Army was
determined to tear it down.
By Don Hollway
THE LOST BATTLE
OF LIMA SITE 85
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VIETNAM
PHOTO CREDIT
This image is an Air Force
reconnaissance photo of
Lima Site 85 taken after
the battle with the North
Vietnamese Army.
6 Feedback
Letters
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Reviews
During the siege of Khe Sanh, the combat operations
center of the 3rd Battalion, 26th Marines, was a hub of
shells bombarded the command bunker.
By Dick Camp
KHE SANH UNDER SIEGE
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TET WATER BATTLE
The North Vietnamese
devised a bold plan to blow up
an oil tanker in a busy port
By Hardy W. Bryan
A SURGEON’S VIETNAM STORY
in a program to aid Vietnamese civilians in the
Mekong Delta, found his job full of anguish—and
joy.
By Mary Jane Ingui
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USS
MIDWAY
ON DISPLAY
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After a storied career with three deployments in
Vietnam, the carrier is inviting visitors to its
retirement home in San Diego.
By Tom Edwards
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