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The Rescue of Bat 21 (Paperback)
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The Rescue of Bat 21 (Paperback)
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List price R632
Loot Price R559
Discovery Miles 5 590
You Save R73 (12%)
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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.
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