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The Rescue of Capt. Scott O'Grady, USAF, from Bosnia
By Mary Pat Kelly
Just five hours after radio contact was first made with Basher 52—O’Grady’s call sign—the Air Force captain was safely on board the USS Kearsarge. The downed F-16 fighter pilot’s rescue from a Bosnian mountainside by Col. Martin Berndt’s 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit electrified the nation in June 1995 and renewed many Americans’ faith in the military. To get the ...
Available Formats: Softcover
Grown Gray In War
The Len Maffioli Story
By Maj. Bruce H. Norton, USMC (Ret.) and M. Gy. Sgt. Len Maffioli, USMC (Ret.)
During his thirty-three years in the U.S. Marine Corps, Len Maffioli saw combat in World War II, the Korean War, and the war in Vietnam. And he was one of eighteen Marines who participated in the only successful organized escape from a Chinese Communist POW camp during the Korean War. But his moving story is not just that of a ...
Available Formats: Hardcover