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| Author / Photographer Ed Darack's fourth book, VICTORY POINT: Operations Red Wings and Whalers—The Marine Corps' Battle for Freedom in Afghanistan will debut on April 7, 2009. VICTORY POINT documents two Marine Corps Operations, Red Wings (often mis-referenced as "Operation Redwing"), and Whalers. The target of both operations was a terrorist / insurgent cell led by a man named Ahmad Shah. The Marine Corps planners of Red Wings brought in Navy SEALs for the opening phases of the op (for reasons to be disclosed for the first time in VICTORY POINT); the four-man SEAL reconnaissance and surveillance team tasked to positively identify Shah inserted near the target's suspected location on the night of 27 June, 2005. Just hours later, in the late morning of the 28th, they fell into a horrific ambush at the hands of Shah and his men, who killed three of the SEALs. 16 special operations personnell (8 Navy SEALs and 8 Army special operations aviators of the 160th SOAR(A)) subsequently perished when one of Shah's men shot the Army Special Operations MH-47 Chinook they were in down during the rescue attempt. Operation Whalers, which had the same goal as Red Wings, utilized only U.S. Marines with attached Afghan National Army Soldiers, had a much different outcome. |
| To learn more about VICTORY POINT, please go to the book's site at www.victorypoint.info, see the promo video at www.victorypoint.tv, YouTube, or Facebook, or read about it at Amazon.com or BarnesAnd Noble.com. |
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| Thank you very much for visiting Darack.com, the resource to the work of author / photographer Ed Darack. Darack is the author of four books, including VICTORY POINT (published by Berkley Caliber, an imprint of the Penguin Publishing Group), numerous articles on a broad spectrum of subject matter, and a photographer whose images appear on all types of visual media throughout the globe, including the covers and interiors of some of the world's most widely read periodicals, on broadcast and cable television, and all forms of product advertising and packaging, for clients such as Germany's Stern, Smithsonian, The National Geographic Society, the Times of London, Bank of America, The Royal Bank of Scotland, Forbes Magazine, The United Nations, Volkswagen, Discovery Channel, AOL, Time Life, The Guardian, IBM, ABC News, The BBC, NBC Television, and many others. |
