Leave no man behind : the saga of combat search and rescue /

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Galdorisi, George.
Other Authors: Phillips, Thomas.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Minneapolis, MN : MBI Pub. Co., 2008.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Prologue
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • PART I: The Birth of Combat Search and Rescue
  • Chapter 1 The Birth of Combat Aircraft
  • Chapter 2 Gallipoli
  • Chapter 3 Rescue under Fire on the Middle Eastern Front
  • Chapter 4 Rescue under Fire on the Western Front
  • Chapter 5 Rescue under Fire on the Italian Front
  • Chapter 6 The Final Analysis
  • Chapter 7 Interwar Aircraft Technology Developments
  • Chapter 8 U.S. Marine Aviation Rescues in Nicaragua, 1927â€?1932
  • PART II: Combat Search and Rescue Evolves in World War IIChapter 9 First Air-Sea Rescue Unit
  • Chapter 10 Allied Air-Sea Rescue Service
  • Chapter 11 Navy Actions in the Southwest Pacific
  • Chapter 12 Army Actions in the Southwest Pacific
  • Chapter 13 Central Pacific Operations
  • Chapter 14 Northwest Pacific Operations after the Fall of the Philippines
  • Chapter 15 The Past Splashes Out and the Future Clatters In
  • Chapter 16 The Future of Combat Rescue
  • PART III: Postâ€?World War II and the Korean War
  • Chapter 17 World War II Ends and the United States Stands DownChapter 18 Prologue to the Korean War
  • Chapter 19 The Korean War Begins
  • Chapter 20 Inchon and the North
  • Chapter 21 Retreat Again
  • Chapter 22 Spring 1951
  • Chapter 23 Navy CSAR Begins in Earnest
  • Chapter 24 Stagnation 1951
  • Chapter 25 Winter 1951â€?1952
  • Chapter 26 Stalemate 1952
  • Chapter 27 End Game
  • Chapter 28 Reckoning: Part 1
  • PART IV: The War in Southeast Asia
  • Chapter 29 Transitions
  • Chapter 30 War Again in Asia
  • Chapter 31 The ARS Deploys
  • Chapter 32 Big Charlie and JollyChapter 33 Navy Combat Rescue Stands Up
  • Chapter 34 Albatross Action
  • Chapter 35 Big Mother and Clementine
  • Chapter 36 Building the ARRS
  • Chapter 37 Indian Summer
  • Chapter 38 Hanging Tough
  • Chapter 39 Short Time
  • Chapter 40 Rough Waters
  • Chapter 41 Heyday of the HH-3E
  • Chapter 42 The New Face of CSAR
  • Chapter 43 HC-7 Gets Rolling
  • Chapter 44 Rolling Thunder Crescendo
  • Chapter 45 Air Force Shoulders the Load
  • Chapter 46 Shift to the HH-53
  • Chapter 47 Lull before the Storm
  • Chapter 48 Orphans of the Seventh FleetChapter 49 End Game
  • Chapter 50 Reckoning
  • PART V: Adrift in the Small But Savage Wars of Peace
  • Chapter 51 Transitions
  • Chapter 52 Grenada, Lebanon, Libya
  • Chapter 53 Desert Storm
  • Chapter 54 Somalia, Bosnia, OEF/OIF
  • Chapter 55 The Global War on Terrorism
  • Chapter 56 Quo Vadis?
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index