Eight missions, and what each one cost

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Eight chapters, eight missions

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• Dustoff. An unarmed helicopter ambulance, a valley full of fog, and wounded men who could not wait. 1968.
• The Dragon's Jaw. Fighter bombers against one bridge and the guns ringed around it. 1965.
• Hill 488. A recon platoon on a bare hilltop, surrounded from dark until noon the next day. 1966.
• Lang Vei. A Special Forces camp overrun in the night, and the men still alive inside it at first light. 1968.
• Rach Ba Rai. A column of armored boats up a narrow stream, with the enemy dug in on both banks. 1967.
• The Son Tay Raid. A helicopter put down inside a prison wall on purpose. 1970.
• Bat 21. One airman down in the path of an invasion, and the men sent to bring him out. 1972.
• Koh Tang. Marines put ashore on an island off Cambodia after the war was said to be over. 1975.

Researched narrative history, not testimony: written from the official histories, unit records and published accounts, with the sources listed at the end of every chapter.