Dear Mom, I'm Alive

ISBN-10
1412045908
ISBN-13
9781412045902
Category
Helicopter pilots
Pages
254
Language
English
Published
2005
Publisher
Trafford Publishing
Author
Randolph P. Mains

Description

This is a story of one young man's right of passage. One out of every three American helicopter pilots never returned from the bloody chaos of Vietnam. Randy Mains beat the odds. For a full year he endured gross incompetence in the chain of command, top-secret excursions into neutral Laos, routine recover missions that would turn suddenly, unexpectedly into life-threatening nightmares one-thousand hours spent flying into the perilous heart of a terifying jungle inferno. Mains learned the meaning of courage and camaraderie...and experienced the gut-wrenching pain of personal loss. Most importantly he survived to tell his own unforgettable story of the real war Mom never knew about.

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