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G.I. Joe is an American media franchise and a line of action figures owned and produced by the toy company Hasbro. [3] [4] The initial product offering represented four of the branches of the U.S. armed forces with the Action Soldier (), Action Sailor (), Action Pilot (U.S. Air Force), Action Marine (U.S. Marine Corps) and later on, the Action Nurse.
Trịnh Thị Ngọ ([ṯɕïŋ˧ˀ˨ʔ tʰi˧ˀ˨ʔ ŋɔ˧ˀ˨ʔ]; 1931 – 30 September 2016), also known as Thu Hương and Hanoi Hannah, was a Vietnamese radio personality best known for her work during the Vietnam War, when she made English-language broadcasts for North Vietnam directed at United States troops.
McGuire, Phillip, ed. Taps for a Jim Crow Army: Letters from Black Soldiers in World War II (University Press of Kentucky, 1993). ISBN 0-8131-0822-5.. Pyle, Ernie Here is your war: story of GI Joe (U of Nebraska Press, 2004) reprint of newspaper essays by famous war correspondent who focused on soldiers' life online. Shapiro, Lisa K.
A G.I. Joe comic showing a classic example of an antiwar hippie spitting on a returning Vietnam vet.. There is a persistent myth or misconception that many Vietnam War veterans were spat on and vilified by antiwar protesters during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
The G.I. movement was the resistance to military involvement in the Vietnam War from active duty soldiers in the United States military. [1] [2] [3] Within the military popular forms of resistance included combat refusals, fragging, and desertion.
The character's facial appearance and military specialty is based upon G.I. Joe comic book writer Larry Hama, [2] who was an EOD specialist for two tours of duty during the Vietnam War. Comics [ edit ]
The Apple TV+ docuseries doesn't feature pundits or historians as talking heads, focusing instead on the people on the ground, from soldiers to nurses to Vietnamese civilians.
Failing our Veterans: The G.I. Bill and the Vietnam Generation (NYU Press, 2014). Clark, Daniel A. "'The two joes meet—Joe College, Joe Veteran': The GI Bill, college education, and postwar American culture". History of Education Quarterly (1998), 38#2, pp. 165–189. Frydl, Kathleen. The GI bill (Cambridge University Press, 2009). online