By Eric Blehm

The unforgettable account and brave activities of the U.S. Army’s 240th attack Helicopter corporation and eco-friendly Beret employees Sergeant Roy Benavidez, who risked every thing to rescue a unique Forces staff trapped at the back of enemy lines.

In Legend, acclaimed bestselling writer Eric Blehm takes as his canvas the Vietnam conflict, as visible via a unmarried project that happened on could 2, 1968. A twelve-man distinctive Forces workforce were covertly inserted right into a small clearing within the jungles of impartial Cambodia—where U.S. forces have been forbidden to function. Their target, simply miles over the Vietnam border, was once to assemble proof that proved the North Vietnamese military used to be utilizing the Cambodian sanctuary as a huge conduit for delivering troops and materiel to the south through the Ho Chi Minh path. What the staff didn’t recognize was once they'd infiltrated a piece of jungle that hid an enormous enemy base. quickly they discovered themselves surrounded through enormous quantities of NVA, lower than assault, low on ammunition, stacking the our bodies of the useless as disguise in a determined try and continue to exist the onslaught.
 
while targeted Forces employees Sergeant Roy Benavidez heard the misery name, he jumped aboard the subsequent helicopter certain for the strive against quarter with out hesitation. Orphaned on the age of 7, Benavidez had picked cotton along his family members as a baby and dropped out of faculty as a teenager sooner than becoming a member of the military. even though he used to be grievously wounded in the course of his first journey of responsibility in Vietnam and advised he might by no means stroll back, Benavidez fought his means back—ultimately incomes his eco-friendly beret.
 
What might turn into legend within the exact Operations group. Flown into the foray of conflict through the brave pilots and staff of the 240th attack Helicopter corporation, Benavidez jumped from the soaring plane, and ran approximately a hundred yards via withering enemy hearth. regardless of being instantly and critically wounded, Benavidez reached the fringe of the decimated crew, supplied remedy, and proceeded to arrange a rare security and rescue. through the hours-long conflict, he used to be bayoneted, shot, and hit by way of grenade shrapnel greater than thirty instances, but he refused to desert his efforts until eventually each survivor was once out of harm’s manner.
 
Written with broad entry to relations, surviving individuals of the 240th attack Helicopter corporation, on-the-ground eye-witness money owed by no means earlier than released, in addition to lately found archival, and declassified army files, Blehm has created a riveting narrative either one of Roy Benavidez’s existence and profession, and of the inspiring, nearly unimaginable occasions that outlined the brotherhood of the air and flooring warriors in an unpopular struggle midway around the globe. Legend recounts the braveness and dedication of these who fought in Vietnam in provider in their nation, and the tale of 1 of the various unsung heroes of the battle, whose activities will be scrutinized for greater than a decade in a conflict for an extended past due, and what many think was once an unjustly denied, Medal of Honor.
 
The case was once reopened 13 years later, in 1980, while a protracted lost—and believed dead—Green Beret eyewitness whom Benavidez had rescued that day, got here forth and wrote an announcement that exposed, as soon as and for all, what occurred on that fateful day in may perhaps of 1968.