Writer and photographer Ed Darack writes in our April/May 2010 issue of the time he spent in southern Afghanistan in December 2009 with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 261 (VMM-261). Many of the ...

An AH-1W SuperCobra flown by the Gunrunners, who hail from an air base at New River, North Carolina, cruises the shores of the Euphrates River south of Haditha. Ed Darack Twin F/A-18Ds belonging to ...

Time was running out. With the space shuttle program ending, veteran writer and photographer Ed Darack knew he’d have to hurry if he wanted to shoot a shuttle launch—especially a nighttime launch. In ...

Where: The Bookworm of Edwards. Cost: $10, includes appetizers . More information: Call 970-926-READ, or visit http://www.BookwormOfEdwards.com. “The story of ...

Author and photographer Ed Darack joins Matt Bubala to talk about his in-depth book, “The Final Mission of Extortion 17-Special Ops, Helicopter Support, SEAL Team Six, and the Deadliest Day of the U.S ...

Air & Space/Smithsonian contributing editor Ed Darack is the author of The Warriors of Anbar; War Moments; The Final Mission of Extortion 17; Victory Point; and three other books. He is the founder of ...

Ed Darack’s The Warriors of Anbar is a riveting account of the heroic battle waged by several battalions of Marines and U.S. service members to defeat al Qaeda in Iraq and bring stability to the ...

Aviators of Marine Attack Squadron 23—the "Ace of Spades"—based out of Cherry Point, North Carolina maneuver their AV-8B Harriers for an aerial refueling mission high above Iraq's Al Anbar Province.

The Haditha Triad of Iraq, the bloody corridor between the cities of Haditha, Barwanah, and Haqlaniyah, was by 2006 home to retreating Al Qaeda extremists who were backed into a corner by swarming U.S ...

If you want to experience the ground combat of Afghanistan, but without the actual fear, blisters and shrapnel wounds, then Ed Darack's 2009 non-fiction work "Victory Point" (Berkley Caliber) is the ...

Darack (Victory Point), a military writer and photographer who has embedded with units in Iraq and Afghanistan, shares a well-researched story of the downing of a U.S. Army CH-47D Chinook helicopter, ...