First Helicopter Boys
Subtitle: The Early Days of Helicopter Operations - the Malayan Emergency, 1947-1960
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Limited
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9781526754134
Subjects: Great britain, royal air force; Helicopters; Malaya, history; Indonesia, history
Description: "The Indonesian Confrontation that raged from 1963 to 1966 stemmed from Indonesia's opposition to the creation of Malaysia. Fighting in the challenging jungle terrain of Borneo and in the countryside straddling the Malaysia/Indonesia border, where there were few roads, posed significant logistical challenges to both sides. That the conflict was ultimately a victory for the Commonwealth forces was in due in no small part to the fact that they enjoyed the advantage of vastly superior helicopter resources and better trained crews - many of which were provided by British units."