These are the true stories of pilots, crew chiefs, and gunners who risked their lives over the jungles ofVietnam. It is also the stories of those who gave their all while doing the combat missions assignedto the helicopter units. A door gunner on a Huey, who survived a crash in the mountains that killed his best friend. Hethen spent three days carrying his pilot who had fractured legs and could not walk, and assistingthe co-pilot who had a punctured lung and broken ribs. No one knew where they were and they hadto escape and evade the enemy who was all around them.Two Oh-6 Loaches are sent to scout a suspected enemy camp in South Vietnam only to find themselvesin a Division base camp of NVA in Cambodia. Someone sent them to the wrong place, andnow they are in a fight for their lives. One is shot down and the other risks everything to pick themup from the middle of the fire fight. A pilot on his very first mission as an Aircraft Commander of a Huey slick and the crew chief andgunner of a Huey gunship. All three share their story of the day the gunship was shot down and therescue that was performed by the slick. Each tells his version from the seat they were in.Over 45 stories of bravery, bravado,recklessness, and down right stupidity. There is a little humorthrown in because war can be damn funny.
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