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Coyote Recon: The Forgotten Wars of Colonel Jay D. Vanderpool (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798985428599)
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xMeet Jay D. Vanderpool.
December 7, 1941: Lieutenant Jay D. Vanderpool, a Field Artillery officer stationed at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, awoke to the sights and sounds of the attack on Pearl Harbor. By the end of the day, he was among the handful of survivors digging trenches along the beaches of Oahu, anticipating a Japanese invasion of the Hawaiian Islands. By mid-1943, he had fought on Guadalcanal and New Georgia before volunteering for a top-secret "liaison" mission to the Allied guerrillas in the Philippines. Infiltrating the islands by submarine, Jay Vanderpool made contact with the Allied guerrillas in southern Luzon, and coordinated their operations with the 11th Airborne Division, facilitating the raid on the infamous Los Bas Prison Camp. After the war, Vanderpool remained on active duty, where he subsequently commanded the UN guerrilla forces during the Korean Conflict, and became a leading advocate for adapting helicopters into close air support weapons and mobile troop carriers. In this regard, he became a "founding father" of the US Army's airmobile (air assault) warfare. Like the proverbial "coyotes" who stealthily run people across international borders, Jay Vanderpool earned his legacy by running Allied commandos behind enemy lines in North Korea and the Pacific. His legacy endures today as a plank holder of American Special Operations and a "founding father" of modern helicopter warfare. Coyote Recon is his story.
Author: Mike Guardia
ISBN-10: 8985428594
ISBN-13: 9798985428599
Publisher: Magnum Books
Language: English
Published: 11/26/2022
Pages: 186
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.40d
- Pearl Harbor survivor.
- Led Allied commandos behind enemy lines.
- And became a "Founding Father" of Army helicopter warfare.
December 7, 1941: Lieutenant Jay D. Vanderpool, a Field Artillery officer stationed at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, awoke to the sights and sounds of the attack on Pearl Harbor. By the end of the day, he was among the handful of survivors digging trenches along the beaches of Oahu, anticipating a Japanese invasion of the Hawaiian Islands. By mid-1943, he had fought on Guadalcanal and New Georgia before volunteering for a top-secret "liaison" mission to the Allied guerrillas in the Philippines. Infiltrating the islands by submarine, Jay Vanderpool made contact with the Allied guerrillas in southern Luzon, and coordinated their operations with the 11th Airborne Division, facilitating the raid on the infamous Los Bas Prison Camp. After the war, Vanderpool remained on active duty, where he subsequently commanded the UN guerrilla forces during the Korean Conflict, and became a leading advocate for adapting helicopters into close air support weapons and mobile troop carriers. In this regard, he became a "founding father" of the US Army's airmobile (air assault) warfare. Like the proverbial "coyotes" who stealthily run people across international borders, Jay Vanderpool earned his legacy by running Allied commandos behind enemy lines in North Korea and the Pacific. His legacy endures today as a plank holder of American Special Operations and a "founding father" of modern helicopter warfare. Coyote Recon is his story.
Author: Mike Guardia
ISBN-10: 8985428594
ISBN-13: 9798985428599
Publisher: Magnum Books
Language: English
Published: 11/26/2022
Pages: 186
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.40d
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