Frozen in time : an epic story of survival, and a modern quest for lost heroes of World War II /

In Nov. 1942 a U.S. cargo plane crashed into the Greenland ice cap, the B-17 sent on the search-and-rescue mission got caught in a storm and also crashed, miraculously all nine men aboard survived. A second rescue operation was launched, but the plane, the Grumman Duck, flew into a storm and vanishe...

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Main Author: Zuckoff, Mitchell.
Format: Book
Language: English
Institution: Perbadanan Perpustakaan Awam Negeri Perak
Library: Main Library
Record Id / ISBN-0: ppap.53967 / 0062133438 (hardcover)
Online Public Access Catalog: Perbadanan Perpustakaan Awam Negeri Perak
Published: New York, NY : Harper, c2013.
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
United States. > Army Air Forces > Search and rescue operations.
World War, 1939-1945 > Search and rescue operations > Greenland.
Airplane crash survival > Greenland.
Greenland > History, Military > 20th century.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : the duck
  • Greenland
  • "A mother that devours her children"
  • Flying in milk
  • The duck hunter
  • A shallow turn
  • Man down
  • A light in the darkness
  • The holy grail
  • Short snorters
  • Frozen tears
  • "Don't try it"
  • "MOs
  • Quick!"
  • Taps
  • Glacier worms
  • Shooting out the lights
  • Snublebluss
  • Outwitting the Arctic
  • Shitbags
  • Dumbo on ice
  • Iceholes
  • Crossed wires
  • The Ten-meter anomaly
  • "Some plan in this world"
  • Down to the wire
  • After Greenland.

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