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victory point operations red wings and whalers the marine corps battle for freedom inafghanistan
p in late june 2005 media sources recounted the tragic story of nineteen u.s. special operations personnel who died at the hands of insurgent terrorist leader ahmad shah and the lone survivor of shahs ambush deep in the hindu kush mountains of afghanistan . the harrowing events of operation red wings marked an important yet widely misreported chapter in the global war on terror the full details of which the public burned to learn . p victory point reveals the complete as yet untold story of operation red wings often mis referenced as operation redwing and the follow on mission operation whalers . together these two u.s. marine corps operations that in the case of red wings utilized navy seals for its opening phase unfurl not as a mission gone terribly wrong but of a complex and difficult campaign that ultimately saw the demise of ahmad shan and his small army of barbarous fighters . p due to the valor courage and commitment of the 2nd battalion of the 3rd marine regiment in the summer of 2005 afghanistan was able to hold free elections that fall . here is the inspiring true account of heroism duty and brotherhood between marines fighting the war on terror .
paperback berkley publishing group 2010 isbn13 9780425232590 isbn10 042523259x
abridged n isbn 13 9780425232590 number in series 1 number of pages 315 publisher penguin group usa release date 1270512000000