This edition published in 2014 by Zenith Press, an imprint of Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc., 400 First Avenue North, Suite 400, Minneapolis, MN 55401 USA. First edition, The American Experience in Vietnam by Clark Dougan and Stephen Weiss, published in 1988 by Boston Publishing Company, Inc. Much of the narrative text of this edition and the historical research that informs it is based on the first edition.

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Digital edition: 978-1-62788-497-6

Hardcover edition: 978-0-76034-625-9

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

The American experience in Vietnam / the editors of Boston Publishing Company. --

[Zenith press edition].

pages cm

Earlier edition has statement of responsibility: Clark Dougan, Stephen Weiss and the editors of Boston Publishing Company ; pictures selected by Kathleen A. Reidy.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-7603-4625-9 (hc w/jacket)

1. Vietnam War, 1961-1975--United States. 2. Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Pictorial works. I. Dougan, Clark. American experience in Vietnam. II. Boston Publishing Company.

DS558.D66 2014

959.704’3373--dc23

2014013529

Zenith Press

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Boston Publishing Company

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On the cover: An unidentified soldier from Bravo Company, 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, Americal Division, during a firefight in the Hiep Duc Valley, 1969.