The Rescue Season: The Heroic Story of Parajumpers on the Edge of the World

The Rescue Season: The Heroic Story of Parajumpers on the Edge of the World image
ISBN-10:

0786232943

ISBN-13:

9780786232949

Author(s): Drury, Bob
Edition: Large Print
Released: Jan 01, 2001
Publisher: Thorndike Pr
Format: Hardcover, 456 pages
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Description:

"[A] highly readable story backed by extensive research . . ." - Library Journal The Air Force's parajumpers (PJs) remarkable achievements are revealed for the first time in Bob Drury's thrilling account of one season in the life of Alaska's 210th Pararescue Squadron, the only PJ team in the world devoted to civilian rescues. The lives of countless men and women - trapped mountaineers, fishermen adrift, lost hunters, and even Navy SEALs freezing to death on a glacier - are the responsibility of this uncommonly trained, close-knit unit of thirty citizen-soldiers.

























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