Tuesday, April 26, 2011

GI Papers publishedDuring the month of April from 1968 thru 1975


As April is drawing to a close, I thought I would end the month reprinting covers of papers published in April. These have been reproduced alphabetically, starting with A Company Underground and Ending with Your Military Left  Series 2. As I did throughout April, May will begin with a timeline of events and end with the covers of all newspapers published during that month.
For skeptics and revisionists who dismiss the existence of the GI Movement, the reproduction of a single paper or just a couple of different titles poses no threat to their position. They can claim, as Congressman Richard Ichord and General Lewis Walt attempted to, during the war as the product of a deliberate effort on the part of civilian activists to make it seem the US Military was riven with dissent and in the process attract, in Donald Rumsfeld's famous phrase, when he first dismissed the Iraqi Insurgency, a few dead enders and malcontents. However, this is far more difficult to do when, as in the case of the number of papers published between 1968 and 1975 during the month of April, you have to account for more than 90 different titles.
As you will notice when you scan these covers, the GI movement concerned itself with every aspect of military life and was not confined to a specific geographic locale. There are papers, whose covers are reproduced below, published in Canada, West Germany, West Berlin, most American States, Japan and Okinawa. They published by exiles, reservists, soldiers, sailors and airmen. Some are fairly sophisticated, while others are excellent examples of outsider publications. Please enjoy

A  Company Underground, no. 2

About Face - the EM News, no. 2

About Face! The U.S. Servicemen's Fund Newsletter, vol. 2, no. 3

About Face! The U.S. Servicemen's Fund Newsletter, vol. 3, no. 3

Aboveground, vol. 1, no. 8

All Hands Abandon Ship, no. 6

All Ready on the Left, vol. 2, no. 1

The Ally, no. 25

AMEX -> Canada, vol. 3, no. 3

AMEX: The American Expatriate in Canada, vol. 2, no. 3

AMEX: The American Expatriate in Canada, vol. 2, no. 8

As You Were, no. 13

Attitude Check, vol. 2, no. 3

The Bond, vol. 2, no. 4

The Bond, vol. 3, no. 4

The Bond, vol. 4, no. 4

The Bond, vol. 5, no. 4

Bragg Briefs, vol. 3, no. 2

Broken Arrow vol. 2, no. 6

Camp News, vol. 3, no. 4

Camp News, vol. 4, no. 4

Concerned Officers Newsletter, no. 1

Counterattack, April 1971

Counterpoint, vol. 2, no. 7

Counterpoint, vol. 2, no. 8

The Destroyer, March-April 1971

Duck Power, vol. 2, no. 3

Dull Brass, vol. 1, no. 1

Fall in at Ease,  April 1972

Fed Up!, vol. 1, no. 5

Fed Up!, vol. 2, no. 2

Fed Up!, vol. 2, no. 3

FighT bAck, no. 7

FighT bAck, no. 18

Forward, no. 1

Forward, no. 32

A Four Year Bummer, vol. 2, no. 2

Fragging Action, vol. 1, no. 6

Fun Travel Adventure, vol. 3, no. 8 [no. 24]

GI Counseling Services Newsletter, no. 2

GI News and Discussion Bulletin, no. 4

GI News and Discussion Bulletin, no. 12

GI Organizer, no. 2

GI Press Service, vol. 2, no. 6

GI Press Service, vol. 3, no. 3

Gigline, vol. 2, no. 6

Gigline, vol. 4, no. 3

Head-On!, vol. 1, no. 4

Helping Hand, vol. 1, no. 10

Helping Hand, vol. 2, no. 6

Helping Hand, vol. 3, no. 5

Left Face [Anniston], April 1970

Left Face [Anniston], April 1971

Lewis-McChord Free Press, vol. 2, no. 4

Lewis-McChord Free Press, vol. 6, no. 6

Liberated Barracks, vol. 2, no. 4

Morning Report, April 1971

Morning Report, April 1972

The Obligore, no. 6

Offul Times, no. 1

OM: The Servicemen's Newsletter, no. 1

OM: The Servicemen's Newsletter, no. 6 [Souvenir Court Martial Edition]

Omega Press, vol. 1, no. 6

On the Beach, vol. 1, no. 6

Open Sights, vol. 1, no. 3

Pacific Stars and Gripes, vol. 1, no. 7

The Pawn, vol. 1, no. 4

The Peoples Press, vol. 1, no. 2

Rap, vol. 1, no. 5

Rap, vol. 2, no.3

The Raw Truth, vol. 1, no. 3

Redline, no. 14

Reservists Committee to Stop the War Newsletter, no. 1

Rough Draft, no. 2

Semper Fi, vol. 3, no. 7

Shakedown, vol. 1, no. 2

Shakedown, vol. 2, no. 2

SOS News, April 1972

The Ultimate Weapon, Special Issue (April 5, 1969)

The Ultimate Weapon, no. 6

Up Against the Wall, vol. 1, no. 2

USAF, vol. 1, no. 1

Veterans Stars and Stripes for Peace, vol. 1, no. 6

Veterans Stars and Stripes for Peace, vol. 2, no. 2

Veterans Stars and Stripes for Peace, vol. 3, no. 2

Vietnam GI, April 1968

VVAW/WSO GI News, no. 5

Where its At, vol. 1, no. 5

Yankee Refugee, no. 7

Your Military Left, 1st Series, vol. 1, no. 9

Your Military Left, 2nd Series, vol. 1, no.10

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