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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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Copyright 2015 by Eric Blehm All rights reserved Published in the United - photo 1
Copyright 2015 by Eric Blehm All rights reserved Published in the United - photo 2Copyright 2015 by Eric Blehm All rights reserved Published in the United - photo 3

Copyright 2015 by Eric Blehm

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Broadway Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

www.crownpublishing.com

Broadway Books and its logo, B \ D \ W \ Y are trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.

Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Crown Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2015.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request.

ISBN9780804139519

Ebook ISBN9780804139526

Map on by Joe LeMonnier

Maps on by Chris Adams, Rocketman Creative

Cover design: Chris Brand

Cover photograph: Larry Burrows/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

photograph by Florian Stern/Gallery Stock

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ALSO BY ERIC BLEHM

FEARLESS

THE ONLY THING WORTH DYING FOR

THE LAST SEASON

This story is dedicated to all those who served in the Military Assistance Command Vietnam, Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG), and the pilots, crews, and maintenance personnel of the assault helicopter companies who supported their missions during the war in Vietnam.

THE ANTIDOTE FOR FIFTY ENEMIES IS ONE FRIEND.

ARISTOTLE

CONTENTS
KEY MILITARY PERSONNEL FOR THE MAY 2 MISSION

Military Assistance Command Vietnam,

Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG)

PROJECT SIGMA, DETACHMENT B-56

Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Drake, Commander

First Lieutenant Fred Jones, Launch Officer

Captain Robin Tornow, U.S. Air Force Forward Air Controller (FAC)

PROJECT SIGMA, DETACHMENT B-56 RECON TEAM

Sergeant First Class Leroy Wright, Team Leader

Staff Sergeant Lloyd Mousseau, Assistant Team Leader

Specialist 4 Brian OConnor, Radioman

Tuan, CIDG Interpreter

Bao, CIDG Point Man

Chien, CIDG Grenadier

CIDG Rifleman

CIDG Rifleman

CIDG Rifleman

CIDG Rifleman

CIDG Ammo Bearer

CIDG Ammo Bearer

214 TH COMBAT AVIATION BATTALION (CAB),

12 TH COMBAT AVIATION GROUP, 1 ST AVIATION BRIGADE

240th Assault Helicopter Company

Major Jesse James, Commander

2 ND PLATOON GREYHOUND SLICKS

AC = pilot/aircraft commander, left seat

CP = copilot, right seat

CC = crew chief/left-door gunner

DG = right-door gunner

BM = bellyman

Command and Control (C&C)

Major Jesse James, AC

First Lieutenant Alan Yurman (leader of 2nd Platoon), CP

Unknown, CC

Unknown, DG

First Lieutenant Fred Jones, Detachment B-56 Mission Launch Officer

Special Forces Major (name unknown), Detachment B-56 Observer

Greyhound One(primary/lead)

Warrant Officer Larry McKibben, AC

Warrant Officer William Fernan, CP

Specialist 4 Dan Christensen, CC

Specialist 4 Nelson Fournier, DG

Staff Sergeant Roy Benavidez, BM

Greyhound Two (primary/wingman)

Warrant Officer Jerry Ewing, AC

First Lieutenant Bob Portman, CP

Specialist 5 Paul Tagliaferri, CC

Unknown, DG

Greyhound Three (reserve/lead)

Warrant Officer Roger Waggie, AC

Warrant Officer David Hoffman, CP

Specialist 4 Michael Craig, CC

Unknown, DG

Unknown, BM

Greyhound Three (second crew)

Warrant Officer Roger Waggie, AC

Warrant Officer David Hoffman, CP

Warrant Officer William Darling, CC

Chief Warrant Officer 2 Thomas Smith, DG

Staff Sergeant Ron Sammons, BM

Greyhound Four (reserve/wingman)

Warrant Officer William Armstrong, AC

Warrant Officer James Fussell, CP

Specialist 4 Gary Land, CC

Specialist 4 Robert Wessel, DG

Specialist 5 James Calvey, BM

3 RD PLATOON MAD DOG GUNSHIPS

AC = aircraft commander/pilot, right seat/rockets

CP = copilot, left seat/miniguns

CC = crew chief/left-door gunner

DG = right-door gunner

Mad Dog One (first fire team/lead)

Chief Warrant Officer 2 William Curry, AC

Chief Warrant Officer 1 David Brown, CP

Sergeant First Class Pete Jones, CC

Swisher, DG

Mad Dog Two (first fire team/wingman)

Chief Warrant Officer 2 Michael Grant, AC

Chief Warrant Officer 1 Ron Radke, CP

Specialist 4 Steven Hastings, CC

Specialist 4 Donald Fowler, DG

Mad Dog Three (second fire team/lead)

Chief Warrant Officer 2 Louis Wilson, AC

Warrant Officer Jesse Naul, CP

Specialist 5 Paul LaChance, CC

Specialist 4 Jeff Colman, DG

Mad Dog Four (second fire team/wingman)

Chief Warrant Officer 2 Gary Whitaker, AC

Warrant Officer Cook, CP

Specialist 5 Pete Gailis, CC

Specialist 4 Danny Clark, DG

Mad Dog Five (emergency backup gunship, flown from Bearcat for extraction)

Chief Warrant Officer 2 Don Brenner, AC

First Lieutenant Rick Adams, CP

Specialist 4 John White, CC

Unknown, DG


All helicopter numbers have been changed for clarity.

PROLOGUE - photo 4PROLOGUE T HIS STORY BEGINS in a US - photo 5
PROLOGUE
T HIS STORY BEGINS in a US governmentissued body bag The date was May 2 - photo 6T HIS STORY BEGINS in a US governmentissued body bag The date was May 2 - photo 7

T HIS STORY BEGINS in a U.S. governmentissued body bag.

The date was May 2, 1968; the location, Loc Ninh Special Forces camp near the Cambodian border in South Vietnam. Inside the zippered tomb lay a stocky, five-foot-six-inch U.S. Army Green Beret staff sergeant named Roy Benavidez. Earlier that day he had jumped from a hovering helicopter, then ran through withering enemy gunfire to reach what remained of an American-led twelve-man Special Forces team surrounded by hundreds of North Vietnamese Army soldiers.

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