TY - BOOK AU - Blehm,Eric TI - 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 SN - 9780804139519 AV - U53.B39 B56 2015 U1 - 959.7/04342 23 PY - 2015///] CY - New York PB - Crown Publishing KW - Benavidez, Roy P. KW - United States KW - Army KW - Special Forces KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Vietnam War, 1961-1975 KW - Commando operations KW - Search and rescue operations KW - Cambodia N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -