Where They Lay - The Search For Those Who Fell In Battle and Were Left Behind Earl Swift

 Where They Lay - The Search For Those Who Fell In Battle and Were Left Behind 

Author: Earl Swift 

Publisher: Random House, London, United Kingdom  

Edition: First, 2003

ISBN: 0-593-04947-0 

Language: English    

Condition: Good. Clean copy with tight binding. 

Binding: Softcover  

Pages: 307. Print with images 

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The suspenseful, poignant true story of the search for an American military pilots remains in Southeast Asia. Where They Lay is both an account of an elite military teams high-tech, high-risk search for a Vietnam War pilots remains, and a moving retelling of his intense final hours. In far-flung rain forests and its futuristic lab near Pearl Harbour, the Central Identification Laboratory strives to recover and identify the bodies of fighting men who never came home from Americas 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 Maj. 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 teams work with a tense account of Barkers fatal attempt to rescue trapped soldiers during the largest helicopter assault in history. The first reporter ever allowed to follow a recovery missionas these archaeological digs are calledin its entirety, Swift got his hands dirty, combing the jungle floor for clues amid vipers, monsoons, and unexploded bombs. In this hands-on, thought-provoking account, he reveals the dedication not only of the fallen servicemen but of the scientists who search for them, and explores questions about the cost of these missions and the corruption among native officials that may compromise them. Informative. . . He interweaves accounts of a generations worth of site sifting, involving everything from the most basic shovel work to satellite relaying of computer data, with the whole history of the remains-recovery project.

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