search and rescue operations

On July 29, 2009, Air National Guard major Mary Jennings ?MJ? Hegar was shot down while on a Medevac mission on her third tour in Afghanistan. Despite being wounded, she fought the enemy and saved the lives of her crew and their patients. But soon she would face a new battle: to give women who serve on the front lines the credit they deserve...

Details the efforts of a crashed B-17 to survive in Greenland during the winter of 1942 and 1943. Also chronicles the author's expedition to the region in 2012 to help recover the remains of the crewmen who did not survive.

An account of the U.S. Army's 240th assault helicopter company and Green Beret staff Sergeant Roy Benavidez, who risked everything to rescue a special forces team trapped behind enemy lines on May 2, 1968.

November 1944: Army airmen set out in a B-24 bomber on what should have been an easy mission off the Borneo coast. Instead they found themselves facing a Japanese fleet--and were shot down. When they cut themselves loose from their parachutes, they were scattered across the island's mountainous interior. Then a group of loincloth-wearing natives silently materialized out of the jungle. Would these Dayak tribesmen turn the starving airmen over to the Japanese occupiers? Or would the Dayaks risk vicious reprisals to get the airmen safely home? The tribal leaders' unprecedented decision led to a desperate game of hide-and-seek, and, ultimately, the return of a long-renounced ritual: head-hunting. This survival story features a bamboo airstrip built on a rice paddy, a mad British major, and a blowpipe-wielding army that helped destroy one of the last Japanese strongholds.--From publisher description.

Photographs and simple text describe the important work that mountain rescue teams do.

Tells the story of hundreds of American airmen who were shot down over Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia, how local Serbian villagers risked their own lives to hide and help them, and their daring rescue in August 1944 by OSS agents.