Price of Exit: A True Story of Helicopter Pilots in Vietnam - Softcover

Marshall, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804117152 ISBN 13: 9780804117159

Verlag: Ballantine Books, 1998

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A member of one of the most highly decorated assault helicopter units in Vietnam recounts the dreadful losses and impossible bravery of his comrades in the face of antiaircraft fire and the perils of mountain terrain. Original.

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sk of a fatal catastrophe was constant. The NVA was the enemy, but the ultimate opponent was, quite simply, death. . . ."

For assault helicopter crews flying in and around the NVA-infested DMZ, the U.S. pullout from Vietnam in 1970-71 was a desperate time of selfless courage. Now former army warrant officer Tom Marshall of the Phoenix, C Company, 158th Aviation Battalion, 101st Airborne, captures the deadly mountain terrain, the long hours flown under enormous stress, the grim determination of hardened pilots combat-assaulting through walls of antiaircraft fire, the pickups amid exploding mortar shells and hails of AK fire, the nerve-racking string extractions of SOG teams from North Vietnam. . . . And, through it all, the rising tension as helicopter pilots and crews are lost at an accelerating pace.

It is no coincidence that the Phoenix was one of the most highly decorated assault helicopter units in I Corps. For as the American departure accelerated and the enemy adde

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• Verlag: Ballantine Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0804117152
• ISBN 13: 9780804117159
• Einband: Libro de bolsillo
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400