"For seven long years hundreds of young US airmen flew sortie after sortie against North Vietnam's formidable and strategically important bridge, dodging a heavy concentration of anti-aircraft fire and enemy MiG planes. Many American airmen were shot down, killed, or captured and taken to the infamo
Dragon's Jaw: an epic story of courage and tenacity in Vietnam
โ Scribed by Stephen Coonts
- Book ID
- 100067831
- Publisher
- Hachette Books;Da Capo Press
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0306922916
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โฆ Synopsis
**A riveting Vietnam War story --and one of the most dramatic in aviation history--told by a New York Times bestselling author and a prominent aviation historian
**Every war has its "bridge"--Old North Bridge at Concord, Burnside's Bridge at Antietam, the railway bridge over Burma's River Kwai, the bridge over Germany's Rhine River at Remagen, and the bridges over Korea's Toko Ri. In Vietnam it was the bridge at Thanh Hoa, called Dragon's Jaw.
For seven long years hundreds of young US airmen flew sortie after sortie against North Vietnam's formidable and strategically important bridge, dodging a heavy concentration of anti-aircraft fire and enemy MiG planes. Many American airmen were shot down, killed, or captured and taken to the infamous "Hanoi Hilton" POW camp. But after each air attack, when the smoke cleared and the debris settled, the bridge stubbornly remained standing. For the North Vietnamese it became a symbol of their...
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