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The unforgettable profile and courageous activities of the US Army's 240th Assault Helicopter Company and Green Beret Personnel Sergeant Roy Benavidez, who risked everything to rescue a Special Forces team trapped behind adversary lines. In Legend, acclaimed best-selling writer Eric Blehm takes as his canvas the Vietnam Conflict as seen through a single mission that happened on, may 2, 1968. A 12-man Special Forces team have been covertly put into a tiny clearing in the jungles of natural Cambodia - where US pushes were forbidden to use. Their objective, just miles over the Vietnam border, was to accumulate evidence that demonstrated the North Vietnamese Army was using the Cambodian sanctuary as a significant conduit for offering soldiers and materiel to the south via the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The particular team didn't know was that they had infiltrated a section of jungle that hidden a major adversary bottom. Soon they found themselves surrounded by hundreds of NVA, under attack, low on ammunition, stacking the physiques of the dead as cover in a desperate attempt to endure the onslaught. When Special Forces Personnel Sergeant Roy Benavidez listened to the problems call, he jumped aboard the next helicopter destined for the fight zone without hesitation. Orphaned at the age of seven, Benavidez got picked cotton alongside his family as a child and dropped out of school as a teenager before becoming a member of the army. Although he was grievously wounded during his first head to of duty in Vietnam and told he'd never walk again, Benavidez fought his way back - ultimately getting his renewable beret. What adopted would become star in the Special Operations community. Flown in to the foray of challenge by the courageous pilots and staff of the 240th Assault Helicopter Company, Benavidez jumped from the hovering airplane and ran nearly 100 yards through withering adversary fire. Despite being immediately and significantly wounded, Benavidez come to the perimeter of the decimated team, provided medical care, and proceeded to arrange an extraordinary security and rescue. During the hours-long challenge, he was bayoneted, taken, and hit by grenade shrapnel more than thirty times, yet he refused to abandon his attempts until every survivor was out of harm's way. Written with intensive access to members of the family, surviving customers of the 240th Assault Helicopter Company, on-the-ground eyewitness accounts never before published, as well as recently uncovered archival and declassified military records, Blehm has created a riveting narrative both of Roy Benavidez's life and career and of the inspiring, almost unbelievable events that identified the brotherhood of air and earth warriors in an unpopular battle halfway surrounding the world. Legend recounts the courage and determination of these who fought in Vietnam operating of their country and the story of one of the many unsung heroes of the battle, whose activities would be scrutinized for more than a 10 years in a challenge for an extended overdue and what many believe was an unjustly denied Medal of Honor. The truth was reopened 13 years later, in 1980, when a long-lost - and thought dead - Renewable Beret eyewitness whom Benavidez got rescued that day arrived forth and had written a declaration that revealed, once and for all, what happened on that fateful day in-may of 1968.
