Helicopter Missions (2010)
Season 1
N/A
Released May 12, 2009
Episode 46 min
None+
Genres: Documentary, War
Keywords: tmdb.vietnam-war, tmdb.military-history
Production Companies: Windfall Films
Network: National Geographic
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S1E1 - The Falklands
AKA: "White Out: SAS Falklands Rescue" In the Falklands War, a top secret SAS mission to South Georgia involves flying up the sheer face of a glacier and dropping men on an icy plateau, riddled with crevasses.
May 12, 2009, midnight
S1E2 - Vietnam
AKA: "Vietnam Firefight" In the Vietnam War, flying into jungle produces a different kind of hazard. In a daring rescue mission a desperate pilot cuts his own landing zone in forty foot tall bamboo.
May 19, 2009, midnight
S1E3 - Afghanistan
AKA: "Taliban Gambit: Trapped By The Taliban" In Afghanistan, the combination of high altitude and dusty conditions make combat flying particularly challenging.
May 26, 2009, midnight
S1E4 - Duel in the Desert
In the Iraq War, flying in the desert poses unique difficulties - there’s nowhere to hide, and a dust storm accompanies every landing and take-off.
June 2, 2009, midnight
National Geographic
46 min/ep
186 min
May 12, 2009
June 2, 2009, midnight
Ended
NR
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