Ed Darack

Author / Photographer - www.darack.com

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WAR MOMENTS, my book featuring a collection of my very best war imagery from Iraq, Afghanistan, and during training with a narrative “behind the image” story for each, comes out on Tuesday, in just three days! Pre-order in link in profile! Here’s another image featured in WAR MOMENTS, “Yankee Launch” - a Marine Corps UH-1Y (“Yankee”) lifting off after inserting troops during a combat operation in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province. This was the very first combat deployment for the Yankee (officially called the “Venom”), and I was lucky enough to be there to get images of some of them in action. #WarMoments #Afghanistan #WarPhotography #War #Photography #Bell #BellHelicopters #UH-1 #UH-1Y #USMC #MarineAviation #Helicopters Repost away, just please mention this account and War Moments! @verticalmag https://www.instagram.com/p/BsjGTPinMf7/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ykng4olu8h3j

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GREAT NEWS! The publisher of WAR MOMENTS, my book of my very best military images from Afghanistan, Iraq, and during training (with stories behind each), has moved the publication date up to January 15! Just a few weeks from now! It won't quite be available for the holidays, but close! Order today on Amazon and put a "coming in a couple weeks" note! The publisher, Amherst Media Photography Books has done a tremendous job with this project, and so the more orders, the better to really get these stories out there. Order through link in profile! Thank you!! #warmoments #warphotography #photography #war #iraq #afghanistan https://www.instagram.com/p/BrJYxJ7ndSt/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=2idd6e6q8qqq

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My upcoming photography book, WAR MOMENTS, will be published by Amherst Media in the spring of 2019. Here is a mockup of a possible cover! The book will feature the very best of my war photography (Afghanistan, Iraq, and training), along with extended captions for each image. I’m super excited about this book! This shot is of a great friend, Mike Scholl, who was killed just over a year after I took this image from an improvised explosive device (IED) in Iraq. I took this photograph at dawn, during an operation in the Hindu Kush mountains of eastern Afghanistan. Follow this account for updates and promotions! Follow the WAR MOMENTS Facebook Page: Facebook.com/warmoments Please feel free to repost with credit @eddarack #warmoments #photography #combatphotography #usmc #marinecorps #afghanistan #army #navy #airforce #specialoperations #specops #EdDarack #KunarProvince #war #combat #newbook #photographybook (at Kunar Province)

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EXTREMELY RARE ST6 Helmet Cam footage of 160th Special Operations MH-47 Chinooks in Afghanistan. This was during the recovery effort of Extortion 17. #extortion17 #devgru #armyrangers #75thrangerregiment #airforcepj #armyaviation @devgrupics @navy.seals.swcc feel free to repost with credit to @eddarack

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GREAT NEWS!! I just accepted an offer for book I've wanted to write for ten years now. It's tentatively called DEATH STRIKE, and it's about the 2nd Battalion of the 3rd Marine Regiment during their 2006-2007 deployment to the Haditha Triad region of Iraq's Al Anbar Province. Their story, which is completely untold, is, in my opinion, one of the greatest war stories of all time. Da Capo Press will publish it. Da Capo is a great publisher and they specialize in military titles. They are an imprint of Hachette, which is one of the "Big Five" publishers in the world. Here's a photo I shot during a patrol with Marines of Weapons Company along MSR Bronze (I was embedded with them in February - March, 2007). I'll post updates as they come! #USMC #Iraq #MarineCorps #EdDarack #Book #WarBook #NewBook

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It's officially out! Here it is at Barnes and Noble next to my last book Victory Point! #Extortion17 #Extortion17Book #newbook

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Comes out tomorrow! Order through link in profile! I'm doing an Instagram takeover at @airspacemag (Smithsonian's Air & Space Magazine) this week - please take a look! #Extortion17 #CH47 #Chinook #CH47Chinook #ChinookHelicopter #marinecorps #mwtc #EdDarack (at Mountain Warfare Training Center)

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Comes out Tuesday! Pass this around and pre-order through link in profile! (at Fort Collins, Colorado)

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U.S. Marines load themselves and their gear into an idling CH-47D Chinook helicopter at the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center, near Bridgeport, California. After weeks of intense mountain warfare training undertaken prior to a deployment to Afghanistan, Chinooks arrived and swept them to more comfortable terrain. The Chinook is the fastest helicopter in the U.S. Military, and arguable the best high altitude helicopter ever produced, and can haul all sorts of cargo, either inside its spacious fuselage and slung below it. Read all about the incredible Chinook, the people who fly, crew, and maintain it, and the full, never-before-told story of Extortion 17 in THE FINAL MISSION OF EXTORTION 17 – an Amazon Best Book of the Month, an Amazon number one best seller (in a number of categories), and available nationally this Tuesday, September 19! Order in the link in this account’s profile! #Extortion17 #Extortion17Book #CH47 #Chinook #Marines #MarineCorps #Army #ArmyAviation #ChinookHelicopter #Helicopter #CH47Chinook #TandemHelicopter #EdDarack #NewBook #Military #War #WarBook (at USMC Mountain Warfare School)

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Another photo of mine demonstrating why infantry, like these Marines, LOVE Chinook helicopters and their pilots and crew. I shot this photo after a raid near Wanat, in eastern Afghanistan's Kunar Province. THE FINAL MISSION OF EXTORTION 17 comes out on Tuesday, September 19, just a few days away! Pre-order through link in profile. #Extortion17 #Extortion17Book #Army #Afghanistan #marines #EdDarack #NewBook #infantry (at Wanat, Konar, Afghanistan)

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Extortion Company sign that hung at FOB Shank (Forward Operating Base Shank), and which was returned to the U.S. years later by a very observant Army Aviation crew during the base's dismantling. There are signatures of most of Extortion Company. For those new to this story, Extortion Company was the unit to which Extortion 17 belonged. I photographed this in 2015. THE FINAL MISSION OF EXTORTION 17 comes out in just four days! Pre-order through link in profile and Amazon will give a discount AND have to you on the day of release! #Extortion17 #NewBook #Afghanistan #History #Army #ArmyAviation #CH47 #CH47D #CH47Chinook #ChinookHelicopter #Chinook #EdDarack (at Dallas, Texas)

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An AH-64 Apache Gunship tears out over the skies above Marines during a combat operation in eastern Afghanistan’s Hindu Kush Mountains. Apaches were always a welcome sight on combat ops! AH-64 Apache gunships played a huge role in the Extortion 17 story! Learn all about these awesome machines and the pilots who operate them in THE FINAL MISSION OF EXTORTION 17! It’s an Amazon.com Best Book of the Month! And it’s been a number one best seller on Amazon for over a month! It comes out in just a few days, on September 19 – Order in the link in the profile of this account and be one of the first to read the full, in-depth, never-before-told story of Extortion 17, including the role Apache gunships played in striking back at the enemy fighters who brought Extortion 17 down. #Extortion17 #Extortion17Book #Afghanistan #OEF #OperationEnduringFreedom #NewBook #AH64 #AH64Apache #Gunship #AH64ApacheGunship #HinduKush #MarineCorps #Marines #EdDarack (at Kunar, Konar, Afghanistan)

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Marines load into the back of a CH-47D Chinook at the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center, in eastern California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains. There is no helicopter like the Chinook! Super powerful, can carry all sorts of cargo, and tons of troops – and it’s the fastest helicopter in the Department of Defense, the best high altitude helicopter in the world, and can land and launch just about anywhere! Read all about the Chinook and the full, never-before-told story of Extortion 17 in THE FINAL MISSION OF EXTORTION 17 – order in link in this account’s profile! #Extortion17 #Extortion17Book #Military #NewBook #EdDarack #MilitaryBook #War #WarBook #Helicopter #CH47 #Chinook #ChinookHelicopter #CH47Chinook #CH47D (at Mountain Warfare Training Center)

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THE FINAL MISSION OF EXTORTION 17 comes out in one week from today! Get the full, never-before-told inside story! Pre-order though the link in this account’s profile! #Extortion17 #Extortion17Book #Afghanistan #NewBook #Military #MilitaryBook #WarBook #EdDarack #History #HistoryBook #OEF #OperationEnduringFreedom #CH47 #Chinook #CH47Chinook #ChinookHelicopter #Helicopter #EdDarack (at Fort Collins, Colorado)

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THE FINAL MISSION OF EXTORTION 17 comes out one week from tomorrow! Between now and then I’ll be posting my favorite / best images of images of mine related to the book, including photographs of Chinooks, of Army aviation, and of Afghanistan! Pre-order the book through the link in the profile of this account! Here’s a photo I shot of a Chinook flight engineer manning an M240 machine gun, with an AH-64 Apache gunship flying cover in the distance. I shot the photograph over badlands formations to the east of Bagram Airfield, in eastern Afghanistan, from a CH-47D Chinook. #Extortion17 #Extortion17Book #NewBook #CH47 #Chinook #Military #HistoryBooks #EdDarack #War #WarBooks #CH47Chinook #FlightEngineer #AH64 #AH64Apache #ApacheGunship #ArmyAviation #AH64ApacheGunship #Afghanistan #OEF #OperationEnduringFreedom (at Afghanistan)

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Coming September 19!! #Extortion17 #Extortion17Book #NationalGuard #navyseals #Afghanistan #NewBook #EdDarack (at Fort Collins, Colorado)

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CH-47D Chinook at a high mountain landing zone deep in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains. I shot this image of a Nevada National Guard CH-47D Chinook helicopter during mountain warfare training at the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center, outside of Bridgeport, California. The Chinook is arguably the best high altitude / mountain helicopter ever produced! It is ideal for Afghanistan! Pilots and crew of Extortion company utilized the uniquely capable Chinook to support special operations ground personnel on a nightly basis. Read all about the incredible CH-47D Chinook, the people behind it, and the complete, untold story of Extortion 17 in THE FINAL MISSION OF EXTORTION 17, available on September 19! Pre-order in the link in the profile of this account! #Extortion17 #Extortion17Book #Helicopter #Chinook #ChinookHelicopter #CH47D #CH47DChinook #CH47 #CH47Chinook #EdDarack #MWTC #California #Bridgeport #SierraNevada #Afghanistan #OEF #MountainWarfare #Training #Military #MilitaryBook (at Mountain Warfare Training Center)