Dedication

     This book is dedicated to the 2,201 American and allied helicopter pilots who flew in Southeast Asia between 1961 and 1975 and who died there, or died of injuries incurred there, or were missing in action. (All MIAs have been declared dead.) They represent about one in every twenty pilots who flew helicopters in the Vietnam War. An even larger number of non-pilot crew members were killed. At the date of this publication, not all of their remains have been returned to the United States. I regret that all these men have had no opportunity to grow old; or to enjoy plentiful hot water, grand sunsets, and grandchildren; or to reminisce about dangerous missions flown long ago, in faraway places. Any one of these pilots would have landed under enemy fire to rescue me, if they thought we had any chance. All of them were my comrades. Eleven of them were my friends.


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