A superbly illustrated account of one of the key milestones in the development of modern US Special Operations Forces, the hugely complex POW rescue at Son Tay.
A superbly illustrated account of one of the key milestones in the development of modern US Special Operations Forces, the hugely complex POW rescue at Son Tay.
INTRODUCTION Efforts to Find the Prisoners of War ORIGINS Polar Circle and the Planning Phase The Legendary Arthur "Bull" Simons Assembles His Men INITIAL STRATEGY Operation Ivory Coast: Training and Preparation for the Rescue Intelligence on the POWs and Son Tay Bureaucracy, Support, and Logistics POW Needs After the Rescue Training for the Ground Forces The Air Component Training When to Go THE PLAN Operation Kingpin-Son Tay Camp The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club Joins the Mission Last-Minute Intelligence Puzzles Everyone Waiting in Thailand to Launch We Are Going to Rescue American Prisoners THE RAID Operation Kingpin Launches The Assault on Son Tay The Secondary School Battle Negative Items, I Repeat, Negative Items! The Air Battle The US Navy Launches Their Mission Firebird 5 Goes Down Extraction and Rescue THE AFTERMATH Shock Among the Raiders and the Political Fallout Back Home What Happened to the POWs? Mystery of the Secondary School ANALYSIS AND CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
INTRODUCTION Efforts to Find the Prisoners of War ORIGINS Polar Circle and the Planning Phase The Legendary Arthur "Bull" Simons Assembles His Men INITIAL STRATEGY Operation Ivory Coast: Training and Preparation for the Rescue Intelligence on the POWs and Son Tay Bureaucracy, Support, and Logistics POW Needs After the Rescue Training for the Ground Forces The Air Component Training When to Go THE PLAN Operation Kingpin-Son Tay Camp The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club Joins the Mission Last-Minute Intelligence Puzzles Everyone Waiting in Thailand to Launch We Are Going to Rescue American Prisoners THE RAID Operation Kingpin Launches The Assault on Son Tay The Secondary School Battle Negative Items, I Repeat, Negative Items! The Air Battle The US Navy Launches Their Mission Firebird 5 Goes Down Extraction and Rescue THE AFTERMATH Shock Among the Raiders and the Political Fallout Back Home What Happened to the POWs? Mystery of the Secondary School ANALYSIS AND CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
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