Hammer From Above: Marine Air Combat Over Iraq
Hammer From Above: Marine Air Combat Over Iraq
Ballantine Books/Presidio Press | 2005 | ISBN: 0891418652 | English | 440 pages | PDF | 57 MB
In Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Marine Corps’ ground campaign up the Tigris and Euphrates was notable for speed and aggressiveness unparalleled in military history. Little has been written, however, of the air support that guaranteed the drive’s success. Paving the way for the rush to Baghdad was “the hammer from above”–in the form of attack helicopters, jet fighters, transport, and other support aircraft. Now a former Marine fighter pilot shares the gripping never-before-told stories of the Marines who helped bring to an end the regime of Saddam Hussein.