Tom Phillips began his U.S. Navy career flying attack helicopters in Vietnam, including POW rescue operations with Navy SEALs. He continued flying in squadrons sprinkled with other CSAR veterans of Vietnam before moving into operational staff positions and, after retirement from active duty, was intimately involved in developing training materials for current CSAR pilots. He now works as a Navy tactics analyst and a flight simulator instructor training todayu00b9s rescue crews. Author George Galdorisi flew U.S. Navy search and rescue in the early 1970s, manning Vietnam-era helicopters with pilots from the initial cadre of navy CSAR teams. His flying career continued for over a quarter-century, culminating with state-of-the-art CSAR helicopters aboard U.S. aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf. He has written about naval combat operations in a wide range of articles in professional journals and has published two successful novels of naval combat: The Coronado Conspiracy and For Duty and Honor. Author Tom Phillips began his U.S. Navy career flying attack helicopters in Vietnam, including POW rescue operations with Navy SEALs. He continued flying in squadrons sprinkled with other CSAR veterans of Vietnam before moving into operational staff positions and, after retirement from active duty, was intimately involved in developing training materials for current CSAR pilots. He now works as a Navy tactics analyst and a flight simulator instructor training todayu00b9s rescue crews.
“An important and comprehensive work on that most American of
military imperatives—going in harm's way to get one of our own.”
—Dick Couch, author of The Sheriff of Ramadi and Chosen
Soldier
“For most of the hundred-plus years of manned flight, aircraft have
been used in combat and tens of thousands have been lost. When
a military aircraft goes down there has always been the desire, but
not always the means, to rescue the survivors. George
Galdorisi and Tom Phillips have provided a comprehensive, and
well-written history of the development of combat rescue up to the
present, including dramatic accounts of rescues, among them many
never before revealed. Leave No Man Behind is a story of
heroism which should appeal to a broad spectrum of readers;
historians, serving military, and those who love a good aviation
story.” —Norman Polmar, author of Aircraft Carriers: A
History of Carrier Aviation and Its Impact on World Events
“Combat search and rescue -- the ability to save downed
pilots -- becomes more important each time the United States
uses aircraft in combat. As enemy defenses improve, it also becomes
more difficult, and the technology involved becomes more complex.
Yet this story has never really been told before. Leave No Man
Behind shows how attempts to rescue pilots began as early as World
War I, and how modern systems have worked, both in theory and in
difficult practice. It offers a unique combination of operational
experience and technical description.” —Dr. Norman Friedman,
author of The Naval Institute Guide to World Naval Weapons
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