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Air commando fifty years of the USAF Air Commando and Special Operations Forces, 1944-1994

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Fly anything. Go anywhere. Make the enemy pay. They fly whatever the brass gives them. They land wherever the brass wants them. They have no fear. Slow and low into the teeth of enemy fire, quick and quiet into enemy-held territory, whatever it takes to get the job done, the USAF Air Commandos ar...

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Main Author: Chinnery, Philip D.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Annapolis, MD St. Martin's Paperbacks Naval Institute Press 1994
Series:Special warfare series
Subjects:
United States. > Air Force > Commando troopsœxHistory
Special forces (Military science) > United States > History
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Table of Contents:
  • The birth of the air commandos: 1st air commando group
  • 2nd air commando group for Burma
  • Island-hopping to Japan: 3rd air commando group
  • Unconventional warfare, 1960-63
  • The call to arms, 1964
  • Fighting the air commando way, 1965-66
  • The secret war in Laos, 1967-68
  • Fighting a losing battle, 1969-71
  • Winding down the war, 1972-75
  • Operation eagke ckaw: learning the lesson again, 1980
  • The invasion of Grenada, 1983
  • The invasion of Panama, 1989
  • War in the Persian Gulf, 1990-91
  • Special operations today, 1992-94

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