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WHERE THEY LAY: THE SEARCH FOR THOSE WHO FELL IN BATTLE AND WERE LEFT BEHIND
by Earl Swift
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(Subject: Post World War II - Vietnam, SE Asia) On 20th March 1971, during a battle in the skies over Laos, a US Huey helicopter exploded, and its scorched remains fell from the sky. The four crew were among the 2,583 US servicemen whose bodies were left unrecovered. Thirty years later a team of soldiers and scientists went back to the battlefield, their task to dig among the thousand of unexploded bombs and other hazards and find the crew. They were part of the US Army's Central Identification Laboratory, the world's largest forensic science team whose job is to find America's war dead and bring them back for burial at home. (Published: 2003) (Publisher: Transworld/Corgi) (ISBN: 0593049470) (Pagination: 307pp illustrations.) (Condition: New in card covers) UL-XXXXXX
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Where They Lay melds an account of an elite military team's high-tech, high-risk search for a Vietnam War pilot's remains with a remarkably immediate and poignant retelling of his final intense hours. In far-flung rain forests and its futuristic lab near Pearl Harbor, the Central Identification Laboratory (CILHI) strives to recover and identify the bodies of fighting men who never came home from America’s wars. Its mission combines old-fashioned bushwhacking and detective work with the latest in forensic technology. Earl Swift accompanies a CILHI team into the Laotian jungle on a search for the remains of Major Jack Barker and his three-man crew, whose chopper went down in a fireball more than thirty years ago. He interweaves the story of the recovery team's work with a tense account of Barker's fatal attempt to rescue trapped soldiers during the largest helicopter assault in history. Swift is the first reporter ever allowed to follow a recovery mission, as these unique archaeological digs are called, in its entirety, and he got his hands dirty, combing the jungle floor for clues amid vipers, monsoons, and unexploded bombs. Where They Lay resounds with admiration for those who fell and those who seek them. But Swift also raises hard questions about these recovery missions. Is it worth $100 million a year to try to bring home the lost from old wars? Is it worth the lives of today's soldiers? (Seven Americans died in the line of duty just months before Swift went in country.) And is the effort compromised by the corruption among native officials overseeing missions in their countries? As new conflicts draw our attention, Where They Lay throws brilliant light on war's cost to soldiers and to those they leave at home.
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- Title
- WHERE THEY LAY: THE SEARCH FOR THOSE WHO FELL IN BATTLE AND WERE LEFT BEHIND
- Author
- Earl Swift
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0593049470
- ISBN 13
- 9780593049471
- Publisher
- BANTAM PRESS
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- February 2, 2004
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- Post World War II - Vietnam, SE Asia On 20th March 1971, during a battle in the skies over Laos, a US Huey helicopter exploded, and its scorched remains fell from the sky. The four crew were among the 2,583 US servicemen whose bodies were left unrecovered
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