Sweating the Metal: Flying under Fire. A Chinook Pilot's Blistering Account of Life, Death and Dust in Afghanistan - Couverture souple

Duncan, Alex

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1444708007 ISBN 13 : 9781444708004

Editeur : Hodder Paperbacks, 2012

Synopsis

The action packed true story of the Chinook helicopter force in Afghanistan.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Flt Lt Alex 'Frenchie' Duncan DFC was born in 1976 to a French mother and Scottish father. Brought up near Paris, he came to England in 1995 after obtaining his baccalauréat having secured a Bursary from British Airways to read aerospace engineering at Manchester University. In August 2000, he was commissioned into the Royal Air Force and selected for rotary wing training, qualifying as a Chinook pilot and joining A Flight, 18 Squadron. He has amassed over 2,000 hours flying the Chinook and has seen service in the US, Norway, Italy, Morocco, France, Germany, Holland, Northern Ireland and Cyprus. He has also undertaken operational tours to Iraq and Afghanistan, where he was commended for gallantry. In 2008, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross - the air equivalent of the Military Cross and one of the highest awards for bravery - for two actions less than a week apart. First, he prevented the assassination of Gulab Mangal, the governor of Helmand Province after his Chinook was ambushed by the Taliban and hit by a hail of rocket and machine-gun fire. Just six days later, he led a formation that twice flew into heavy enemy fire to drop vital troops during an air assault.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hodder Paperbacks
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1444708007
• ISBN 13: 9781444708004
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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