Here's a favorite from when I was a kid, I must have checked it out several times from the base library. I recently found an ancient paperback copy at a local veterans museum fundraiser:
Air Rescue by Lt. Cols. Carroll V. Glines and Wendell F.Moseley.
First published in 1960-61, it covers WWII and post-war activities. In addition to the authors own work, if features a great story that first appeared in
Air Force magazine "Seventy Nine Hours" by Ed Mack Miller (a well known senior UAL training captain who wrote aviation stories on the side) which details the USAF/RCAF efforts to save the crew of B-47 51-7033 after it was lost following an explosion.
In chapter 8, the recount the story of a C-47 down on the ice in Greenland in 1948. A SB-17 tried to land to pick them up but gets stuck on the ice, then a rescue CG-4 glider lands to pick up everyone It would be snatched by a C-47 to take off) but it wrecked by the wind. Eventually they were picked up by a JATO-equipped C-47.
I wonder what became of the SB-17?
An old book but it should be easy to find on places like Abe Books, Albris and the like. Personally, I'm fond of stories from the H-19, H-21 and SA-16 days...and pre-ELT, GPS and even survival radios (I trained on them at survival school but I can't remember the designation...SRT something?).
That Others May Live is an official Air Force history of rescues in the Korean War. Being not copyrighted, I found a free copy online, (Sorry, I can't find the link) but our friends at Amazon will sell you an ebook copy of the Air Force version for $7.99 (which had got to be about $7.98 profit).
https://www.amazon.com/That-Others-May- ... B013XTV4VIThere is another Amazon link from a private publisher who seems to have appropriated the book...and offers it for a more reasonable $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/That-Others-May- ... B00ZYC6RGKThere seem to be a lot out there about Vietnam. I see a book with a view that of the bottom of a HH-3 all the time in Amazon.
In doing a search, the Jolly Green Association lists some books on their website about Vietnam rescues:
http://jollygreen.info/library/