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

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zuckoff, Mitchell.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:New York, NY : Harper, [2013], ©2013.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
United States. > Army Air Forces > Search and rescue operations.
Search and rescue operations > Greenland.
World War, 1939-1945 > Search and rescue operations > Greenland.
Table of Contents:
  • The Duck
  • Greenland
  • "A mother that devours her children"
  • Flying in milk
  • The duck hunter
  • 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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