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MHQ
HAMILTON GREGORY is a best-selling textbook author and former professor at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College. In 1968–69 he served as a U.S. Army intelligence agent in Vietnam, where he recruited and trained Southeast Asians...
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HistoryNet
Ngo Quang Truong was widely considered one of the most honest and capable generals of the South Vietnamese army during the long war in Southeast Asia. General Bruce Palmer, in his book The 25-Year War, described Truong as a “tough,...
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Mag: Vietnam Personalities
A Vermont farm boy went to Vietnam as an aid worker and came home, in the eyes of the government, as one of the reasons the U.S. lost the war Alongside members of the U.S. military, many aid workers, civilian government employees and...
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HistoryNet
It is January 24, 1954, as you assume the role of General Vo Nguyen Giap, commander of the military forces of the Viet Minh, the Vietnamese communist independence movement led by Ho Chi Minh that seeks to overthrow French colonial rule....
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MHQ
JOHN GAROFOLO, a former entertainment industry executive, is currently assigned as a Coast Guard liaison to the Defense Department. A veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Garofolo provided security and escorted members of the...
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Vietnam Magazine
A young pilot’s letter to a newspaper columnist started a story that ended 45 years after he was killed. In May 1968, when Nancy’s Vietnam Mailbag first ran in the Wilmington, Delaware, Journal, I received a letter from a Captain News...
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Vietnam Magazine
A newly minted company commander had to deal with all those things and more in Operation Santa Fe. In late September 1967 I was called to the battalion headquarters and received orders for an operation named “Santa Fe.” Earlier that...
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Vietnam Magazine
Jan Patronek, a young U.S. Army lieutenant, finds himself leading South Vietnamese troops in house-to-house fighting with the Viet Cong during the 1968 Tet Offensive. Sentries standing guard at 3 a.m. in the Mekong Delta initially assumed...
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Vietnam Magazine
Wounded veterans have problems most veterans don’t experience. They may be so seriously hurt they cannot even walk up a flight of stairs or drive a car, for example. The Military Order of the Purple Heart, a nonprofit formed in 1932...
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Vietnam Magazine
Surprise attacks by elite Communist units known as sappers were one of the most serious—and feared—threats to Americans in Vietnam. In the fog-shrouded early morning hours of March 28, 1971, 50 members of a specially trained North...
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Vietnam Magazine
When a truck bomb explodes at the Victoria Hotel officers quarters in Saigon, the bravery of three military policemen saves hundreds of lives. Saigon in the spring of 1966 was fast losing its reputation as the “Pearl of the Orient.”...
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Vietnam Magazine
Shortly before midnight on July 12, 1970, Alpha Company of the 2nd Battalion, 501st Airborne Infantry Regiment, detected movement about 200 meters below its landing zone on a hill. Company commander Chuck Hawkins ordered his forward...
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Vietnam Magazine
I enlisted in the Army as a 17-year- old recruit from a 4-mile hollow in Hernshaw, West Virginia, in 1955. Years later, when it came time to do my security clearance, I had to own up to my real birthdate. I had changed it from April 19,...
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Vietnam Magazine
JAN SCRUGGS volunteered for service in Vietnam and suffered shrapnel wounds over much of his body when his unit was ambushed in May 1969. After the war, while studying for a graduate degree, Scruggs researched the psychological conflicts...
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Vietnam Magazine
Education Center at Wall Faces Funding Hurdles Jan Scruggs, the force behind the creation of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in 1982, is now leading the charge for construction of a privately funded “Education Center at the Wall” to help...
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Vietnam Magazine
Honor Thy Father  I could not put the December 2014issue down while reading “Descent into the DMZ.” John J. Galluzzo made me feel as if I had known his father, Robert Francis Galluzzo. The epilogue was very moving and I was saddened...
