Nguyen Charlie
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Nguyen Charlie was the name of a comic strip that appeared during the Vietnam War in the Pacific edition of the U.S. military newspaper Stars and Stripes, from 1966 to 1974. It was drawn by Corky Trinidad, an editorial cartoonist for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin since 1969.
Writing on an Internet forum, one fan of the strip describes the title character as "a dedicated Viet Cong sharing the Vietnam battlefields with his American counterparts, with everyone sharing one common interest: to survive." [1]
During the war, three softcover books of Trinidad's strips were published, titled:
Nguyen Charlie (1969)
Sorry 'Bout That, Sarge (1970), and
Not In This War, Charlie! (1970).
A fourth softcover book of reprints titled Nguyen Charlie Encores followed in 1985 (Arthouse Books, ISBN 0-935021-01-9).
[edit] External links
- Nguyen Charlie on website of Patrol Craft Fast veterans group
- Nguyen Charlie on website of 170th Assault Helicopter Company veterans group
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