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The true story of the U.S. Armys 240th Assault Helicopter Company and a Green Beret Staff Sergeants heroic mission to rescue a Special Forces team trapped behind enemy lines during the Vietnam War, from New York Times bestselling author Eric Blehm.
On May 2, 1968, a twelve-man Special Forces team covertly infiltrated a small clearing in the jungles of neutral Cambodiawhere U.S. forces were forbidden to operate. Their objective, just miles over the Vietnam border, was to collect evidence that proved the North Vietnamese Army was using the Cambodian sanctuary as a major conduit for supplying troops and materiel to the south via the Ho Chi Minh Trail. What the team didnt know was that they had infiltrated a section of jungle that concealed a major enemy base. Soon they found themselves surrounded by hundreds of NVA, under attack, low on ammunition, stacking the bodies of the dead as cover in a desperate attempt to survive the onslaught.
When Special Forces Staff Sergeant Roy Benavidez heard their distress call, he jumped aboard the next helicopter bound for the combat zone. What followed would become legend in the Special Operations community. Flown into the foray of battle by the 240th Assault Helicopter Company, Benavidez jumped from the hovering aircraft, ran nearly 100 yards through withering enemy fire, and--despite being immediately and severely wounded--organized an extraordinary defense and rescue of the Special Forces team.
Written with extensive access to family members, surviving members of the 240th Assault Helicopter Company, on-the-ground eye-witness accounts never before published, as well as recently discovered archival, and declassified military records, Blehm has created a riveting narrative both of Roy Benavidezs life and career, and of the inspiring, almost unbelievable events that defined the brotherhood of the air and ground warriors in an unpopular war halfway around the world. Legend recounts the courage and commitment of those who fought in Vietnam in service of their country, and the story of one of the many unsung heroes of the war.
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ALSO BY ERIC BLEHM
FEARLESS
THE ONLY THING WORTH DYING FOR
THE LAST SEASON
Copyright 2015 by Eric Blehm
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Crown Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.
www.crownpublishing.com
CROWN is a registered trademark and the Crown colophon is a trademark of Penguin Random House LLC.
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 and photograph by Florian Stern/Gallery Stock
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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
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.
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.
A few strides into his heroic dash, a bullet passed through his leg and knocked him off his feet. Determined to reach his comrades, he rose and continued his sprint, zigzagging through enemy fire for almost seventy-five yards before he went down again, this time from the explosion of a near-miss rocket-propelled grenade. Ignoring both the bullet and shrapnel wounds, he crawled the remaining few yards into the beleaguered teams perimeter, took control, provided medical aid, and positioned the remaining men to fight back the endless waves of attacking NVA while he called in dangerously close air support.
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