In Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Marine Corps' ground campaign up
the Tigris and Euphrates was notable for speed and aggressiveness
unparalleled in military history. Little has been written, however,
of the air support that guaranteed the drive's success. Paving the
way for the rush to Baghdad was "the hammer from above"-in the form
of attack helicopters, jet fighters, transport, and other support
aircraft. Now a former Marine fighter pilot shares the gripping
never-before-told stories of the Marines who helped bring to an end
the regime of Saddam Hussein.
As Jay Stout reveals, the air war had actually been in the planning
stages ever since the victory of Operation Desert Storm, twelve
years earlier. But when Operation Iraqi Freedom officially
commenced on March 20, 2003, the Marine Corps entered the fight
with an aviation arm at its smallest since before World War II.
Still, with the motto "Speed Equals Success," the separate air and
ground units acted as a team to get the job done.
Drawing on exclusive interviews with the men and women who flew the
harrowing missions, Hammer from Above reveals how pilots and their
machines were tested to the limits of endurance, venturing well
beyond what they were trained and designed to do. Stout takes us
into the cockpits, revealing what it was like to fly these intense
combat operations for up to eighteen hours at a time and to face
incredible volumes of fire that literally shredded aircraft in
midair during battles like that over An Nasiriyah .
With its dynamic descriptions of perilous flights and bombing runs,
Hammer from Above is a worthy tribute to the men and women who flew
and maintained the aircraft that so inspired theirbrothers in arms
and terrified the enemy.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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