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Legend : a harrowing story from the Vietnam War of one Green Beret's heroic mission to rescue a Special Forces team caught behind enemy lines / Eric Blehm.

By: Blehm, Eric [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Crown Publishing, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Edition: First editionDescription: xiii, 288 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780804139519; 0804139512Subject(s): Benavidez, Roy P | United States. Army. Special Forces -- History -- 20th century | Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Commando operations -- United States | Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Search and rescue operations -- CambodiaDDC classification: 959.7/04342 LOC classification: U53.B39 | B56 2015
Contents:
Street kid from Cuero -- "Look sharp, be sharp, go Army!" -- The darkest white -- Green Beret -- The secret war -- Anatomy of a mission -- Welcome to Detachment B-56 -- Over the fence -- The launch -- As bad as it gets -- Daniel Boone tactical emergency -- If someone needs help-- -- Last chance -- Deliverance -- Mettle for medal.
Summary: The author takes as his canvas the Vietnam War, as seen through a single mission that occurred on May 2, 1968. A twelve-man Special Forces team had been covertly inserted into a small clearing in the jungle of neutral Cambodia--where U.S. forces were forbidden to operate. The team did not know they had infiltrated a section of jungle that concealed a major enemy base.
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Includes index.

Street kid from Cuero -- "Look sharp, be sharp, go Army!" -- The darkest white -- Green Beret -- The secret war -- Anatomy of a mission -- Welcome to Detachment B-56 -- Over the fence -- The launch -- As bad as it gets -- Daniel Boone tactical emergency -- If someone needs help-- -- Last chance -- Deliverance -- Mettle for medal.

The author takes as his canvas the Vietnam War, as seen through a single mission that occurred on May 2, 1968. A twelve-man Special Forces team had been covertly inserted into a small clearing in the jungle of neutral Cambodia--where U.S. forces were forbidden to operate. The team did not know they had infiltrated a section of jungle that concealed a major enemy base.

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