The Ravens : Pilots of the Secret War of Laos
by Christopher Robbins
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- as new
- Paperback
- Condition
- As New
- ISBN 10
- 9748303411
- ISBN 13
- 9789748303413
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About This Item
Bangkok: Asia Books, 2000. Trade Paperback. Third Edition, second printing, 2001. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 476 pages.
The Ravens were fighter pilots working as Forward Air Controllers for the Central Intelligence Agency in Laos during the Vietnam War, though their existence was denied by both the United States and North Vietnam. The Ravens undertook observation missions and were also tasked with marking enemy targets with smoke rockets to direct air strikes onto them. These deniable mercenary pilots had units based in five locations in Laos: Long Tieng, Luang Prabang, Pakse, Vientiane, and Savannakhet. The Ravens wore no uniform, carried no identification, and flew unarmed light aircraft which they would sold for a dollar apiece so that they could be struck from the US Air Force records.
Synopsis
"While America and the rest of the world watched the Vietnam war on television, a handful of elite Air Force pilots, wearing anything but uniforms and piloting unarmored, small, prop-driven aircraft, fought a secret war..." in "the other theater - a small nation called Laos, next door to Vietnam, bordered by the Ho Chi Minh Trail..."
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- RWARE0000000545
- Title
- The Ravens : Pilots of the Secret War of Laos
- Author
- Christopher Robbins
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Third Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 9748303411
- ISBN 13
- 9789748303413
- Publisher
- Asia Books
- Place of Publication
- Bangkok
- Date Published
- 2000
- Pages
- 476
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- history, military, aerial, aviation, covert, Forward Air Controllers, operations, pilots, war, CIA, Secret War, Vietnam War, Lao, Laos
- Bookseller catalogs
- Laos; History; Military and Defense; Intelligence & Espionage; Asia; Vietnam and the Vietnam War;
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