The Freedom Shield: The 191st Assault Helicopter Company in Vietnam

By John D. Falcon and Maj. John D Falcon (Ret)

Book Overview

A Vietnam War helicopter pilot shares arresting accounts of flying troops into hot LZs and medevacking the wounded under fire. The Freedom Shield brings together stories of veterans of the 191st... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1612008607
• ISBN13: 9781612008608
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Casemate
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Wrong emphasis

This book does little to portray the people who actually flew the missions and concentrates on a few commissioned officers. They’re the ones who needed the medals for their careers and being the ones who wrote the justifications for them, they were awarded disproportionately. Some of their actions portrayed in this book as heroic and for which medals were awarded, in reality were unnecessary and downright stupid and endangered their crew chiefs and gunners and for which a warrant officer would have been severely chastised. Not a very accurate telling of the crews who carried the load.