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| Author | : Ismael Gilroy |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 2021-06 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
Helicopters began proving their worth over Korea in the 1950s, but it was over Indochina that a new generation of rotary-winged aircraft became an indispensable military asset. Vertical takeoff and landing capabilities allowed soldiers to be rushed to the jungles, valleys, and hilltops. The copters were equally adept at extracting troops when the operation was completed. Their ability to evacuate the wounded and swiftly convey them to a medical facility was the difference between life and death for tens of thousands of casualties. Along with DMZ Dustoff Vietnam and Dustoff & Medevac Vietnam, this is Volume 6 of Helicopter Rescues Vietnam compiled by Phil Marshall, a Vietnam Medevac "Dustoff" helicopter pilot. Twenty more first-person Vietnam helicopter rescues as told by the men who flew them, a total now of over 165 Missions documented by the Author in his 8 books. All Missions are true and are not embellished.
| Author | : Hugh L. Mills, Jr. |
| Publisher | : Presidio Press |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 2009-01-16 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0307537927 |
The aeroscouts of the 1st Infantry Division had three words emblazoned on their unit patch: Low Level Hell. It was then and continues today as the perfect concise definition of what these intrepid aviators experienced as they ranged the skies of Vietnam from the Cambodian border to the Iron Triangle. The Outcasts, as they were known, flew low and slow, aerial eyes of the division in search of the enemy. Too often for longevity’s sake they found the Viet Cong and the fight was on. These young pilots (19-22 years old) “invented” the book as they went along. Praise for Low Level Hell “An absolutely splendid and engrossing book. The most compelling part is the accounts of his many air-to-ground engagements. There were moments when I literally held my breath.”—Dr. Charles H. Cureton, Chief Historian, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine (TRADOC) Command “Low Level Hell is the best ‘bird’s eye view’ of the helicopter war in Vietnam in print today. No volume better describes the feelings from the cockpit. Mills has captured the realities of a select group of aviators who shot craps with death on every mission.”—R.S. Maxham, Director, U.S. Army Aviation Museum
| Author | : Phil Marshall |
| Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Total Pages | : 266 |
| Release | : 2017-12-09 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781981339464 |
Along with DMZ Dustoff Vietnam and Dustoff & Medevac Vietnam, this is Volume 6 of Helicopter Rescues Vietnam compiled by Phil Marshall, a Vietnam Medevac "Dustoff" helicopter pilot. Twenty more first person Vietnam helicopter rescues as told by the men who flew them, a total now of over 165 Missions documented by the Author in his 8 books. All Missions are absolutely true and are not embellished.
| Author | : Phil Marshall |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 367 |
| Release | : 2019-01-03 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781793124708 |
True, first person accounts of daring helicopter rescues in Vietnam. For information contact: OS PUBLISHING, PO Box 133, Lakeview, Ohio 43331 USA
| Author | : Chuck Gross |
| Publisher | : University of North Texas Press |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 2006-06-13 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1574412213 |
Rattler One-Seven puts you in the helicopter seat, to see the war in Vietnam through the eyes of an inexperienced pilot as he transforms himself into a seasoned combat veteran. At the age of twenty, Chuck Gross spent his 1970-71 tour with the 71st Assault Helicopter Company flying UH-1 Huey helicopters. He inserted special operations teams into Laos and participated in Lam Son 719, a misbegotten attempt to assault and cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail, during which his helicopter was shot down and he was stranded in the field.
| Author | : Robert L. LaPointe |
| Publisher | : PJs in Vietnam |
| Total Pages | : 178 |
| Release | : 2002-05-27 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0970867115 |
The official United States Air Force report is called “Rescue at Ban Phanop.” But, to the hundreds of men who flew on this mission, it is simply known as “Boxer 22.” It was the largest search and rescue (SAR) mission in the Vietnam War that resulted in a survivor being rescued by a USAF helicopter. The recovery area was on the Ho Chi Minh Trail near the small village of Ban Phanop. For 3 days hundreds of airplanes fought to protect and rescue two pilots. Hundreds of NVA troops were equally determined to prevent the rescue. The resulting heroics by the air rescue force against seemingly impossible odds are legends that are still told at USAF fighter squadrons around the world. Read to what extremes your Air Force went to rescue “Just One Man”.
| Author | : Robert C. Ankony |
| Publisher | : Hamilton Books |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 2008-10-21 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0761843736 |
Lurps is the revised edition of the memoir of a juvenile delinquent who drops out of ninth grade to chase his dream of military service. After volunteering for Vietnam, he joins the elite U.S. Army LRRP/Rangers—small, heavily armed long-range reconnaissance teams that patrol deep in enemy-held territory. It is 1968, and the Lurps find themselves in some of the war's hairiest campaigns and battles, including Tet, Khe Sanh, and A Shau. Readers witness all the horrors, humor, adrenaline, and unexpected beauty through the eyes of a green young warrior. Gone are the heroic clichZs and bravado as compelling narrative and realistic dialogue sweep the reader along with a powerful sense that this is actually happening. This poignant coming-of-age story explores the social background that shaped the protagonist's thinking, his uncertain quest for redemption through increased responsibility, the brotherhood of comrades in arms, women and sexual awakening, and the baffling randomness of who lives and who dies.
| Author | : Scott Harrington |
| Publisher | : Hellgate Press |
| Total Pages | : 364 |
| Release | : 2016-09-06 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781555718411 |
During the early years of the Vietnam War, several small cadres of men served their country and their fellow comrades-in-arms from a remote airbase cut out of the jungles of northeast Thailand. The base was named Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base, but the men assigned there had a special name for it: "Naked Fanny." Initially they were assigned to rescue military pilots shot down over Laos or forced to leave their aircraft over Thailand. But as the war expanded, their mission changed and they were asked to fly into hostile situations in North Vietnam, making numerous rescues--detailed here by the pilots who flew them and those who were rescued. This is a story that has never been told in its entirety but is an integral part of U.S. Air Force aviation history. Scott Harrington has compiled and written the story of those early years of the Vietnam War at the little base just west of the town of Nakhon Phanom, Thailand. After reading it, you'll understand why these fragile aircraft and the men who flew them were often referred to as "Blades of wood - Men of steel."
| Author | : George Galdorisi |
| Publisher | : Zenith Press |
| Total Pages | : 672 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780760323922 |
The history of a near-century of combat search and rescue, with an account of how the discipline was created and how it is administered—or neglected—today.
| Author | : Darrell D Whitcomb |
| Publisher | : Naval Institute Press |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 2014-07-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1612515835 |
When his electronic warfare plane--call sign Bat 21--was shot down on 2 April 1972, fifty-three-year-old Air Force navigator Iceal “Gene” Hambleton parachuted into the middle of a North Vietnamese invasion force and set off the biggest and most controversial air rescue effort of the Vietnam War. Now, after twenty-five years of official secrecy, the story of that dangerous and costly rescue is revealed for the first time by a decorated Air Force pilot and Vietnam veteran. Involving personnel from all services, including the Coast Guard, the unorthodox rescue operation claimed the lives of eleven soldiers and airmen, destroyed or damaged several aircraft, and put hundreds of airmen, a secret commando unit, and a South Vietnamese infantry division at risk. The book also examines the thorny debates arising from an operation that balanced one man’s life against mounting U.S. and South Vietnamese casualties and material losses, the operation’s impact on one of the most critical battles of the war, and the role played by search and rescue as America disengaged from that war.
