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Saving Lives Under Fire in Afghanistan
Warwick Publishing
May 2015
On Sale: May 19, 2015
236 pages
ISBN: 0989798364
EAN: 9780989798365
Kindle: B00VH7BLOO
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Dustoff 7-3 tells the true story of four unlikely
heroes in the rugged mountains of Afghanistan, where medics
are forced to descend on wires to reach the wounded and
helicopter pilots must fight wind, weather, and enemy fire
to pluck casualties from some of the world’s most difficult
combat arenas. Complete opposites thrown together, cut off,
and outnumbered, Chief Warrant Officer Erik Sabiston and his
flight crew answered the call in a race against time, not to
take lives—but to save them.
The concept of
evacuating wounded soldiers by helicopter developed in the
Korean War and became a staple during the war in Vietnam
where heroic, unarmed chopper crews flew vital missions
known to the grateful grunts on the ground as Dustoffs.
The crew of Dustoff 7-3 carried on that heroic
tradition, flying over a region that had seen scores of
American casualties, known among veterans as the Valley of
Death. At the end of Operation Hammer Down, they had rescued
14 soldiers, made three critical supply runs, recovered two
soldiers killed in action, and nearly died. It took all of
three days.
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