Renegade hero : the true story of RAF pilot Terry Peet and his clandestine mercy flying with the CIA / by Michael Hingston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hingston, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peet, Terry, 1935-.

Peet, Terry.

Great Britain. Royal Air Force--Biography.

Great Britain.

United States. Central Intelligence Agency--Biography.

United States.

Air pilots, Military--Great Britain--Biography.

Air pilots, Military.

Helicopter pilots--Great Britain--Biography.

Helicopter pilots.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Place of Publication:

Barnsley, South Yorkshire [England] : Pen & Sword Aviation, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Cold war helicopter ace Terry Peet lived for flying. He was a 'go anywhere, do anything,' Royal Air Force pilot with a reputation for 'sheer guts'. Whether ferrying troops to remote jungle landing zones or snatching casualties from makeshift clearings surrounded by two-hundred-feet high trees, he willingly pushed himself and his primitive Sycamore helicopter to the limit. During two years in the hot spots of Malaya and Borneo with the RAF, he repeatedly cheated death and earned a Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air. Then suddenly he disappeared without trace, apparently drowne

Contents:

Maps; Acknowledgements; Preface; Chapter One: Mind Twisting Times; Chapter Two: Disappearing Act; Chapter Three: Driving Ambition; Chapter Four: Balancing on a Stick; Chapter Five: Exciting and Vital; Chapter Six: Defying Death Again; Chapter Seven: Absent Without Leave; Chapter Eight: Escape to Brussels; Chapter Nine: Operation WITHRUSH; Chapter Ten: Bienvenue Capitaine; Chapter Eleven: Special Assignment; Chapter Twelve: Cleared All the Way; Chapter Thirteen: You Belong to Us; Chapter Fourteen: Cucaracha's Crusade; Chapter Fifteen: Rescues and Ransoms; Chapter Sixteen: Nothing but Murder

Chapter Seventeen: Another Storm BrewingChapter Eighteen: From Friend to Foe; Chapter Nineteen: Too Dangerous to Stay; Chapter Twenty: Destination Calabar; Chapter Twenty-one: The Relief Operation; Chapter Twenty-two: A Bizarre Twist; Chapter Twenty-three: Double Crossed; Chapter Twenty-four: Call to Laos; Chapter Twenty-five: Paradise Found; Chapter Twenty-six: ...And Lost Again; Postscript; Sources; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781299199132

1299199135

9781844682522

1844682528

OCLC:

797917278