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When his electronic warfare plane - call sign Bat 21 - was shot down in April 1972, Air Force navigator Iceal ""Gene"" Hambleton parachuted into the middle of a North Vietnamese invasion force and set off the biggest and most controversial air rescue effort of the Vietnam War. Now, after twenty-five years of official secrecy, the story of that dangerous and costly rescue is revealed for the first time.

The Rescue of Bat 21

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    A Paperback by Darrel D. Whitcomb

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      Publisher: Naval Institute Press
      Publication Date: 7/30/2014
      ISBN13: 9781612515847, 978-1612515847
      ISBN10: 1612515843

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      Book Synopsis
      When his electronic warfare plane - call sign Bat 21 - was shot down in April 1972, Air Force navigator Iceal ""Gene"" Hambleton parachuted into the middle of a North Vietnamese invasion force and set off the biggest and most controversial air rescue effort of the Vietnam War. Now, after twenty-five years of official secrecy, the story of that dangerous and costly rescue is revealed for the first time.

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