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Apache Dawn

Apache Dawn is the story of one of the first Apache attack helicopter units ever sent into active combat. It tells the story of one flight of Apaches – a pair of aircraft with the call sign ‘Ugly’ – and their four pilots who were at the heart of a series of unrelenting and brutally intense combat missions in Afghanistan, over the summer of 2007. Afghanistan is a theatre for which the Apache “appears to have been born”, according to Steve James, the pilot of Ugly 5-0. Apache Dawn interweaves the stories of the air ops with the men fighting on the ground – wherein the Apache’s intervention during the white-hot heat of battle turned the tables and saved lives. Told from both aircrew and ground soldier perspectives, the breathtaking tales of rescue, medical evacuation, and devastating close air support are doubly gripping. No one who reads of the hopes and fears and the feats of operational daring will fail to appreciate the quality of both men and machines, or of the contribution this emblematic aircraft has made to waging war in Helmand.

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