The untold story of the most important Rescue Mission not just of the Vietnam War, but the entire Cold War: one American aviator, who knew our most important secrets, crashed behind enemy lines and risked capture by both the North Vietnamese and the Soviets.
Drawing from dozens of interviews and access to unpublished papers, Saving Bravo is the riveting story of one of the Greatest Rescue missions in the History of the Special Forces..
In this deeply-researched, untold story, award-winning author Stephan Talty describes the extraordinary Mission that led Hambleton to safety.
Gliding past hundreds of enemy soldiers, it takes them days to reach Hambleton, who, guided toward his rescuers via improvised radio code, is barely alive, deeply malnourished, and hallucinating after eleven days on the run.
Finally, Navy SEAL Thomas Norris and his Vietnamese guide, Nguyen Van Kiet, volunteer to go after him on foot.
Airborne Rescue missions fail, killing eleven Americans.
When Hambleton is shot down in the midst of North Vietnam\'s Easter Offensive, US forces place the entire war on hold to save a single man hiding amongst 30,000 enemy troops and tanks.
His memory is filled with highly classified information that the Soviets and North Vietnamese badly want.
Colonel Gene Hambleton.
At the height of the Vietnam War, few American airmen are more valuable than Lt.
One Navy SEAL and his Vietnamese partner had to sneak past them all to save him.
The untold story of the most important Rescue Mission not just of the Vietnam War, but the entire Cold War: one American aviator, who knew our most important secrets, crashed behind enemy lines and risked capture by both the North Vietnamese and the Soviets
