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The Official Guide to
Rolling Thunder XXXI
HOMEFRONT
Folsom Prison Blues
a hit for Johnny Cash
Dogfight
Enemy on All Sides
Air Evac—the only way out
Fighting over MIAs, money and trade
JUNE 2018
HistoryNet.com
JUNE 2018
On the cover
An F-4D Phantom II of the
8th Tactical Fighter Wing
approaches a Boeing KC-
135A Stratotanker for midair
refueling over Vietnam.
U.S. AIR FORCE; PHOTO ILLUSTRATION
BY BRIAN WALKER; INSET: MICHAEL
OCHS ARCHIVES/GETTY IMAGES
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THE GREAT
KILL-RATIO DEBATE
American fighter pilots lost their air-to-air combat
skills during during the peaceful years after the
Korean War and fared worse than their predecessors,
critics of the Air Force have said. Are they right?
By William A. Sayers
Alpha Wolf
Men from Col. Robin Olds’
8th Tactical Fighter Wing,
known as the“Wolf Pack,”
celebrate his final mission in
Vietnam on Sept. 23, 1967. The
Wing had the greatest aerial
combat record of the war.
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VIETNAM
U.S. AIR FORCE
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Feedback
Today
In the News
Voices
Keith Harman
Homefront
May-June 1968
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64
Battlefront
50 Years Ago in the War
Arsenal
UH-1 Iroquois “Huey” Helicopter
Media Digest
Hall of Valor
Mike Novosel
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GET EVERYBODY OUT!
In May 1968, more than 1,500
Americans at Kham Duc were
surrounded by an advancing enemy.
By Roger Mulock
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COURAGEOUS
WOMEN
The jobs of three
women—a nurse,
a journalist and a
surgeon—put them in
the midst of the brutal
combat of Vietnam.
By Kathryn J. Atwood
THE ROCKY ROAD
TO RECONCILIATION
The path to friendly U.S.-Vietnamese relations
was full of diplomatic twists and turns.
By John D. Howard
KILLER TECH:
THE WATER WAR
From the Gulf of Tonkin to
the Mekong Delta, both sides
launched new waterborne
technologies during the war.
JUNE 2018
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