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Combat Talons in Vietnam - Recovering a Covert Special Ops Crew (Hardcover)
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Combat Talons in Vietnam - Recovering a Covert Special Ops Crew (Hardcover)
Series: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series
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Combat Talons in Vietnam is a personal account of the first use of
C-130s in the Vietnam War. It provides an insider's view of crew
training and classified missions for this technologically advanced
aircraft. Many covert missions over North Vietnam were sucessful,
but one night, John Gargus, a mission planner, oversaw an operation
in which the aircraft-carrying eleven crewmembers-failed to return
from a nighttime mission. For thirty years, a search for the
missing aircraft remained in progress. In the late 1990s, the
Combat Talon veteran community at Hurlburt Field in Florida, still
uncertain of the full story, decided to dedicate a memorial to the
lost crew. When wartime mission records were declassified, Gargus
embarked on a long journey of inquiry, research, and puzzle-solving
to reconstruct the events of that mission and the fate of its crew.
He discovered that the wreckage of the plane had been found in 1992
and that the remains of the crew were being held in Hawaii. Through
numerous Freedom of Information Act requests, interviews, and site
visits, Gargus sought to answer the question of why it took so long
to find the wreckage and, more importantly, why the special
operations command units and crewmember families were left
uninformed. By 2000, the remains were relocated to a common grave
at Arlington National Cemetery at last providing a measure of
closure to family, friends, and comrades.
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