Gary Telles

This is an incredible account of an American aviator shot down Jan. 17, 1991, the first night of Operation Desert Storm. This 2003 book came out at a time when it was still not known what had become of Speicher. An unsettling among of evidence is documented that suggested he persisted maybe years among Bedouins and/or captivity as a Saddam trophy. From the backstory to The Falcon and reading books on the Vietnam conflict, I came away thinking of rescue teams as diligent and dauntless. This show more was not apparently the case during this conflict: "left up to thirty aircrews without rescue attempts". Even in the years since, it is not resolved even with finding the pilot's remains: https://www.pownetwork.org/saudi/sd017.htm show less