Casualty Evacuation Helicopters: Reevaluating the Role of the Dustoff in the Vietnam War

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This line of reasoning was, of course, encouraged by the Pentagon’s strategy based on attrition and the body count, in which it was just as important to minimize American deaths as it was to maximize the enemy’s. Those two goals, however, often turned out to be incompatible, because rescuing one’s own wounded of-ten meant that the battle against the enemy had to be broken off at a critical time, or diverted into an unplanned direction.

This article was written by Paddy Griffith and originally published in the June 2001 issue of Vietnam Magazine.

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