Great Book for Its Price. Lots of Colour Photos. First of all, the book's subject matter is far more focused than its rather general title would suggest. Although this book does contain a few photos of helicopter crewmen, it should really be entitled "Vietnam: US Ground Forces Combat Uniforms in Colour Photographs."
The book contains 92 colour photos. All of which are nice clear studio photographs. The book features 43 different uniforms. Unlike some uniform books, the models wearing the uniforms are well selected. The uniforms are displayed with full... more info
My Soapbox review.... This book , in my own opinion was quite good. It does what most reference books don't.....show the uniforms(or items of interest) in perfect light and studio conditions. Don't get me wrong,I know it is good to see true-to-life photos, but they usually don't give you an idea, or visual picture like this book. The only bad part of this book is that it shows too few examples of variants during this conflict. The thing that make up for it is the price of the book!
Interesting Overview.- A collection of Well-captioned photographs. A major collecting field today is clothing and equipment.
This is the third edition of a book I have had in my library for a number of years. It is an excellent set of images of models wearing the clothing and equipment recreations of soldiers as they appeared during various time periods of the Vietnam War.
Vietnam servic3 for the typical serving soldier was a one year tour, he would be not be cognizant of the changes that occured over the war's course. And the vast majority would not have... more info
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