Rescue Mission To Save Bat 21 Bravo - Combat Search and Rescue Mission During the Vietnam War Rescue Ops, #2
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Sprache:Englisch
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Format
ePUB
Kopierschutz
Ja
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
04.08.2026
Verlag
John BlackSeitenzahl
(Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
209 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798231191642
Rescue Mission To Save Bat 21 Bravo tells the largest, longest, and most complex combat search and rescue of the Vietnam War comes. In the Easter Offensive's killing ground south of the DMZ, one EB-66 navigator was stranded behind tens of thousands of North Vietnamese troops. This book follows, in forensic detail and human depth, the eleven-day operation that bent an entire air campaign around the promise that no man left behind.
Drawing on official U.S. Air Force histories, Air University case studies, declassified mission reports, and interviews with participants, this definitive account tracks every phase of the Bat 21 rescue. Readers move from the SA-2 missile that tore apart Bat 21, through the failed helicopter runs of Blueghost and the Jolly Greens, into the moment when General Creighton Abrams finally halted airborne attempts and turned instead to a Navy SEAL and a South Vietnamese Sea Commando. The golf-course code that guided Iceal "Gene" Hambleton toward the Mieu Giang River, the loss of Nail 38 and Covey 282, the mortar-raked forward operating base, and the final sampan extraction under machine gun fire are all reconstructed from primary evidence rather than dramatized guesswork.
This books restores the roles of Mark Clark, Bruce Walker, Larry Potts, Peter Chapman, Allen Avery, Nguyen Van Kiet, and many others whose lives and deaths defined the operation's true cost. It explains why aircrews flew into a wall of SAMs and AAA day after day, how doctrine struggled to catch up with reality, and why the rescue became a turning point in combat search and rescue thinking that still echoes in modern CSAR planning. For readers of Vietnam War history, military aviation, special operations, and serious combat rescue scholarship, this is the narrative to combine operational rigor with a full human roster of everyone involved.
Rescue of Bat 21 Bravo stands apart because it is built like a professional military history, not a movie tie-in. For Kindle and paperback readers who want the real story, not the simplified myth, this is the complete, research-driven account of the most expensive rescue in U.S. Air Force history and the night when a U.S. Navy SEAL and a Vietnamese Sea Commando paddled a stolen boat through an invasion army to keep a promise.
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