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CIA’s black warfare and the Navy’s Operation Passage to Freedom
Col. Edward Lansdale, chief of the CIA's Saigon Military Mission, was the genius cowboy who skirted the rules to achieve just goals; for others, he was the embodiment of an arrogant foreign policy gone dangerously wrong.
By Marc D. Bernstein, HistoryNet
A wedding ring in a muddy pond
More than 50 years after being shot down, a Navy pilot is honored for his sacrifice.
By Thomas R. Messick, Vietnam Magazine
Navy to name warship after heroic Vietnam POW
Jeremiah Denton was shot down over North Vietnam in 1965 and blinked the word "torture" in Morse code during a TV interview the following year.
Remember that time we forgot a navy and had to go back and get it?
“We forgot ’em.”
By Don North, Vietnam Magazine