The Ravens: The True Story of a Secret War by Christopher Robbins

Author:Christopher Robbins
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Vietnam War, Vietnamese Conflict, Military, Laos, 1961-1975, History
Publisher: Apostrophe Books
Published: 2012-06-01T12:00:00+00:00

PICTURES

Gen. Vang Pao, who first saw combat with the French at the age of thirteen, led the CIA-trained and -financed Meo guerrillas throughout the war until the end. (Pic: Private collection of David Kouba)

War bled the Meo nation of its men until only children remained to fill the ranks. A child holds a white phosphorous marking rocket before it is loaded on a Raven O-1 Bird Dog. (Pic: Private collection of Michael Cavanaugh)

Prince Mangkhra Phouma, the son of the prime minister, poses with a Meo soldier on the Plain of Jars in 1969. The boy had been singled out for distinction for his high number of enemy ‘kills’. (Pic: Private collection of William Keeler)

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