Operation Thunderhead : the true story of Vietnam's final POW rescue mission--and the last Navy SEAL killed in country / Kevin Dockery.
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TextPublication details: New York : Berkley Caliber, 2008.Edition: 1st edDescription: viii, 294 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 0425223736
- 9780425223734
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Main Library | NonFiction | 959.70437 D637 | Available | 33111005530478 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The war was all but overÂbut there was still one battle the United States had to fight In the last year of the Vietnam conflict, even as American troops were leaving for home, there were still those fighting for their lives: prisoners of war being held in the Communist north. This is the incredible true story of a rescue mission that was classified Top Secret for yearsÂOperation Thunderhead. The Navy SEALs and the Underwater Demolition Teams who took part knew that if they were captured, they would be killed, tortured, or more likely disappear forever. They went in anyway. Here, for the first time, the full details of Operation Thunderhead are revealedÂthe mission, the materials, and the men who put their lives on the line to save their brothers in arms.
Includes index.
Vietnam -- Fear -- Code of conduct -- A start -- Punching out -- Captured -- Moving -- Interrogation -- Escape -- Run -- The goose and the bug -- Torture -- The dungeon -- Heartbreak and beyond -- The zoo -- Coker and McKnight -- Bid for freedom -- The Zoo Annex -- Planning and preparation -- Escape from the annex -- Freedom runners -- Ordeal -- SEALs, frogmen, and dark waters -- New time -- Operation Diamond -- Blackbirds booming the Hanoi Hilton -- Operation Thunderhead -- Launch -- Deadly waters -- Final return.