WHERE THEY LAY: THE SEARCH FOR THOSE WHO FELL IN BATTLE AND WERE LEFT BEHIND

Author: Earl Swift

Publisher: Transworld/Corgi

Year published: 2003

Pagination: 307pp illustrations.

Condition: New in card covers

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On 20th March 1971, during a battle in the skies over Laos, a US Huey helicopter exploded, and its scorched remains fell from the sky. The four crew were among the 2,583 US servicemen whose bodies were left unrecovered. Thirty years later a team of soldiers and scientists went back to the battlefield, their task to dig among the thousand of unexploded bombs and other hazards and find the crew. They were part of the US Army's Central Identification Laboratory, the world's largest forensic science team whose job is to find America's war dead and bring them back for burial at home.