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The publisher’s fourth and last examination of the Vietnam War’s closing chapter is now available.

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Helion & Company has become expert at providing books detailing various conflicts around the globe. The common factor is that, besides insightful text, they all offer useful visual reference for modellers in terms of the machinery involved.

This new work, Target Saigon 1973-75 Volume 4: The Final Collapse, April-May 1975, closes author Albert Grandolini’s revealing series on the gradual capture of the South Vietnamese capital and its surrounds. As with all the preceding volumes, modellers can expect revealing photos; here they are all in black and white, and show many vehicles including M41, M48,T-54 and Type 63 tanks, M113 armoured personnel carriers, among others. Air assets feature too and there are fascinating images of Northrop F-5As, Chinooks, Cessna A-37Bs, C-130 Hercules and the like. Several photos really hit home regarding the valiant efforts to halt the North Vietnamese onslaught. These include huge BLU-82 15,000lb bombs sitting on trailers before being dropped from South Vietnamese C-130s. Also demonstrating the frantic nature of Saigon’s collapse is the image of three pilots in the cockpit of a twin-seat A-37B, after its escape to southern Thailand.

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Supporting the narrative and images are various maps, plus 11 pages of colour profile artwork and illustrations of soldiers on both sides. A notable inclusion is that of a US Navy VF-1 F-14A Tomcat; this type flew its first operational sorties to cover the evacuation of Saigon. Other useful aircraft profiles include an Air America UH-1H, Various F-5As, A-37Bs, an A-1H Skyraider and a CH-53D.

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There’s myriad inspiration for builds/dioramas here, whether your focus is on ground or air assets. If you already have the first three instalments on the subject you’ll already appreciate their value and will want to complete the set (all of the Target Saigon books, at time of writing, costs £15.96 each). However, if you’re a modeller embarking on Vietnam War builds for the first time, it’s highly recommended that you consider obtaining the Saigon books, as well as Helion & Company’s many other softback works on this long-running conflict. They are all available direct from the Helion & Company website

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