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where they lay the search for those who fell in battle and were left behind...
earl swift By the end of the war in Vietnam there were 2,583 US servicemen in jungle graves. Among them were the bodies of two pilots and two gunners, the recent recipients of the Silver Star who flew in the suicidal helicopter mission over Laos on March 20 1971. The recovery of their bodies at the time was impossible because of the terrain and infestation with North Vietnamese.
30 years later an team of scientists and soldiers undertook to fulfil the unspoken US government pledge to return the lonely bodies of those who lost their lives to their families in home towns and cities.
Facing dangers of their own included millions of unexploded ordnance, jungle leeches, monsoon rains, poisonous snakes and centipedes this team vowed to return with the bodies of those four men.
'Part history, part travelogue, part scientific adventure, [Where They Lay] chronicles the sad, often frustrating, years-long effort to find the remains of those heroes...'
319 pp - Paperback - Published 2003
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