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In late June 2005, media recounted the tragic story of nineteen U.S. special operations personnel who died at the hands of insurgent/terrorist leader Ahmad Shah, leaving one survivor, deep in the Hindu Kush Mountains of Afghanistan. The harrowing events of Operation Red Wings marked an important, yet widely misreported, chapter in the Global War on Terror. This book reveals the complete story of Operation Red Wings (often mis-referenced as "Operation Redwing"), and the follow-on mission, Operation Whalers. Together, these two U.S. Marine Corps operations (which in the case of Red Wings…
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1 edition- Other · English · 2009Berkley Caliber · 316 pages · 9780425226193
Afghan War, 2001-Commando operationsOperation Red Wings, 2005Operation Whalers, 2005Search and rescue operationsUnited StatesUnited States. Marine CorpsUnited States. Navy. SEALs