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Unforgotten in the Gulf of Tonkin - A Story of the U.S. Military's Commitment to Leave No One Behind (Hardcover)
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Unforgotten in the Gulf of Tonkin - A Story of the U.S. Military's Commitment to Leave No One Behind (Hardcover)
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Unforgotten in the Gulf of Tonkin: A Tale of Combat Survival and
the U.S. Military's Commitment to Leave No One Behind occurs in
just 24 hours in 1965. Unforgotten starts in the minutes before
Navy Lt. William Sharp dramatically ejects from his F-8 during the
Vietnam War, after his jet is hit by enemy fire. Ejecting from a
jet going faster than four-hundred miles per hour can be a lethal
undertaking. If the ejection doesn't kill a pilot, it can snap
their spine. Sharp made it out alive, one arm injured and useless.
After landing in water, Sharp struggled against armed North
Vietnamese fishermen while pilots in friendly aircraft, despite
having no formal training in combat search and rescue, fended off
his attackers, distracting his captors so he could free himself. A
pilot as well as an engineer, Bjorkman writes nail-biting
descriptions of air combat and flight. She has the technical
know-how to hook readers with descriptions of events in the cockpit
and the knack of making the story come alive for both experts and
armchair pilots. Unforgotten combines the cockiness and camaraderie
of Top Gun with the heroics of Sully to produce a riveting tale of
combat rescue in the Gulf of Tonkin. Bjorkman also situates Sharp's
story in a bigger picture by giving the reader a personalized
history of the U.S. Military's bedrock credo: no man left behind,
and by exploring the human fallout from Vietnam through Sharp's
growing struggles with PTSD.
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