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02775aam a2200313 i 4500 001 51889E22404611E7A352E2BBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170524010031 007 n 008 141011s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 0062336614 (pbk.) 020 $a 9780062336613 (pbk.) 040 $d IaOe $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Couch, Dick. 245 10 $a Navy SEALs : $b their untold story / $c Dick Couch and William Doyle ; including interviews by Carol L. Fleischer ; afterword by Rear Admiral Garry J. Bonelli (USN Ret.), Ninth Force Commander, Naval Special Warfare Command. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, $c [2014] 300 $a xxii, 310 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-293) and index. 505 0 $a The fantastic hour -- Dawn of the naked warriors -- Hot war, cold water -- The birth of the SEALs -- Into the jungle -- Tragedy and resurrection : the post-Vietnam years -- Terror and destiny : Mideast and antiterror operations. 520 $a Written with the cooperation of the Naval Special Warfare community, here is the definitive history of the U.S. Navy SEALs, a chronicle that reveals the inside story behind the greatest combat operations of our nation's most celebrated warriors. The authors draw on exclusive interviews with more than 100 special operators (including multiple Medal of Honor recipients), as well as thousands of pages of declassified documents, to create a vivid portrait of the SEALS in action. The book charts the evolution of the frogmen from their origins in World War II and the Korean War, when Navy commando teams cleared mines and scouted landing sites ahead of the main American forces. After their official founding in 1962 by order of President John F. Kennedy, and early covert operations in Cuba, the SEALS came of age in the jungles of Vietnam, where they specialized in the most daring missions. Couch and Doyle trace their transformation in the 1980s and 1990s--when special operations teams were centralized under the U.S. Special Operations Command--including untold accounts from Panama, Grenada, Somalia, and the first Gulf War. Finally, we follow their rise to preeminence in Iraq and Afghanistan after 9/11. -- From publisher description. 541 $d 20170116. 610 10 $a United States. $b Navy $x Commando troops. 610 10 $a United States. $b SEALs. $b SEALs. 610 10 $a United States. $b SEALs. $b SEALs. $x History. 700 $a Doyle, William., $e author. 941 $a 1 952 $l VKPE334 $d 20170524010527.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=51889E22404611E7A352E2BBDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search