Coyote Recon: The Forgotten Wars of Colonel Jay D. Vanderpool - Mike Guardia

Descriere Coyote Recon: The Forgotten Wars of Colonel Jay D. Vanderpool - Mike Guardia

Meet Jay D. Vanderpool. \n- Pearl Harbor survivor. \n- Led Allied commandos behind enemy lines. \n- And became a Founding Father of Army helicopter warfare. \nDecember 7, 1941: Lieutenant Jay D. Vanderpool, a Field Artillery officer stationed at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, awoke to the sights and sounds of the attack on Pearl Harbor. By the end of the day, he was among the handful of survivors digging trenches along the beaches of Oahu, anticipating a Japanese invasion of the Hawaiian Islands. \nBy mid-1943, he had fought on Guadalcanal and New Georgia before volunteering for a top-secret liaison mission to the Allied guerrillas in the Philippines. Infiltrating the islands by submarine, Jay Vanderpool made contact with the Allied guerrillas in southern Luzon, and coordinated their operations with the 11th Airborne Division, facilitating the raid on the infamous Los Baños Prison Camp. \n \nAfter the war, Vanderpool remained on active duty, where he subsequently commanded the UN guerrilla forces during the Korean Conflict, and became a leading advocate for adapting helicopters into close air support weapons and mobile troop carriers. In this regard, he became a founding father of the US Army's airmobile (air assault) warfare. \n \nLike the proverbial coyotes who stealthily run people across international borders, Jay Vanderpool earned his legacy by running Allied commandos behind enemy lines in North Korea and the Pacific. His legacy endures today as a plank holder of American Special Operations and a founding father of modern helicopter warfare. \n \nCoyote Recon is his story.\n

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