Raider

About this book

The true story of the legendary soldier who performed more POW raids than any other American in history. He went into battle as a boy. And on one of the most daring missions of World War II he became a man-- and the perfect soldier for Americas next wars... Galen Charles Kittleson was slight modest and born to wage war. The son of an Iowa farmer Kittleson volunteered in 1943 and caught the eye of his commanders. By 1945 PFC Kittleson was selected for the Armys smallest elite unit the Alamo Scouts. While U.S. forces were pushing back the Japanese in the Pacific the Alamo scouts unleashed legendary raids deep behind enemy lines including the liberation of over 500 starved beaten prisoners of the Bataan Death March in the Philippines. For Kittleson a career as a raider had just begun... Charles W. Sasser chronicles the remarkable journey that was Kit Kittlesons courageous life in the service of his country. Now a veteran after first going to war as a boy twenty-five years ago Kittleson volunteered for one last mission-- the most extraordinary and daring POW raid ever attempted by secret American Special Forces in Vietnam...