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Chariots of the Damned By Mike McKinney, Mike Ryan Publisher: Collins 2002 320 Pages ISBN: 0007107722 PDF 2 MB The sensationally titled Chariots of the Damned: Helicopter Special Operations from Vietnam to Kosovo documents death-defying chopper-based Special Ops rescue missions. Writers Mike McKinney, an instructor pilot in the U.S. Air Force, and Mike Ryan (Warplanes of the Future) take turns writing chapters recounting both successful rescues and such notorious failures as those in Somalia and Iran, with an analysis of tactics. They also provide lots of technical information about the choppers themselves, tracing the evolution of helicopter technology over the last 30 years or so. From Booklist Low and slow, a military helicopter is vulnerable to any enemy with a rifle, and that lethal hazard to the pilot is what ties together these dozen-plus war stories. The strength author McKinney brings to his book is his military experience flying one of the machines that frequently figures in these narratives, the H-53. He and his coauthor inject much technical material about the capabilities of various models of helicopters, acronym-heavy details that may lack drama but are critical to success or disaster in combat operations. McKinney also aims to impress upon the reader the skill, nerve, and will of the pilot who flies into heavy fire. This combination of technology and courage structures the stories but, unfortunately, never quite succeeds in raising this work's literary level. Practically all the reader learns about the pilots who died is their bravery and their rank. Still, readers have much to admire in these renditions of the helicopter's role in American missions from the Son Tay raid of 1970 to recent rescue operations in the Balkans.
McDonnell Douglas OH-6A Helicopter
McDonnell Douglas OH-6A Helicopter (Aero 38) By Donald J. PorterPublisher: TAB Books 1990 85 PagesISBN: 0830686193DJVU 11 MBThe 0H-6A helicopter, developed in the early 1960s, set the stage for a smorgasboard of armed helicopters the U.S. Arm ... Читать
Green Light!: A Troop Carrier Squadron's War from Normandy to the Rhine
Green Light!: A Troop Carrier Squadron's War from Normandy to the Rhine By Martin WolfePublisher: United States Government Printing 1989 516 PagesISBN: 0812281438PDF 47 MBThe history of air warfare is replete with accounts of derring-do and cou ... Читать
Marines and helicopters, 1946-1962
Marines and helicopters, 1946-1962 By Eugene W RawlinsPublisher: History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps 1976 113 PagesISBN: B0006CRXW0PDF 4 MBThe commissioning of Marine Helicopter Squadron 1 (HMX-1) in 1947 at Quantico, ... Читать
The Greatest War: Americans in Combat 1941-1945
The Greatest War: Americans in Combat 1941-1945 By Gerald AstorPublisher: Presidio Press 1990 1055 PagesISBN: 0891416951PDF 5 MBAfter years of lying in wait, the WWII story sprang back into action last year, with movies like Saving Private Ryan ... Читать
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