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  • National Geographic

Helicopter Wars

  • 2009
  • Ended
  • Documentary
  • ~47m / ep
  • 1 season

Latest: Season 1 · 2009

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  1. E1. The Falklands

    May 12, 2009 · 47m

    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.

  2. E2. Vietnam

    May 19, 2009 · 47m

    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.

  3. E3. Afghanistan

    May 26, 2009 · 47m

    AKA: "Taliban Gambit: Trapped By The Taliban" In Afghanistan, the combination of high altitude and dusty conditions make combat flying particularly challenging.

  4. E4. Duel in the Desert

    Jun 2, 2009 · 45m

    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.

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