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Balding, rawhide-lean, just under six feet tall': the real life soldier behind Robert Duvall's Apocalypse Now role

Robert Duvall's Lt Col Kilgore in Apocalypse Now was modeled on real Vietnam officer Lt Col John B. Stockton, a distinctive helicopter cavalry commander.

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30 Vietnam-Era Weapons That Changed Warfare Forever

Vietnam-era weapons and tactics forced adaptation, reshaping mobility, firepower, surveillance, and doctrine toward air mobility, helicopter warfare, small-unit tactics, and counterinsurgency.

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Balding, rawhide-lean, just under six feet tall': the real life soldier behind Robert Duvall's Apocalypse Now role

30 Vietnam-Era Weapons That Changed Warfare Forever

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