Frozen in time an epic story of survival and a modern quest for lost heroes of World War II
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 -- Gl...
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| Format: | UnknownFormat |
| Sprache: | eng |
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New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, New Delhi, Auckland
Harper Perennial
2014
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| Ausgabe: | First Harper Perennial edition |
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United States
> Search and rescue operations
> World War, 1939-1945
> Airplane crash survival
> Armed Forces ; Search and rescue operations
> Rescue work
> Military history
> Greenland
> History, Military
> Erlebnisbericht
> Grönland
> USA
> Soldat
> Transportflugzeug
> Flugzeugabsturz
> Überleben
> Geschichte 1942
> Flugzeugwrack
> Bergung
> Expedition
> Geschichte 2012
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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 -- Epilogue: After Greenland -- Postscript. In November 1942, a U.S. cargo plane crashed into the Greenland ice cap. A 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 vanished. The survivors of the B-17 spent 148 days fighting to stay alive while waiting for rescue by explorer Bernt Balchen. Then in 2012, the U.S. Coast Guard and North South Polar mounted an expedition to solve the mystery of the vanished plane and to recover the remains of the lost plane's crew |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-378) and index |
| Beschreibung: | xi, 393 pages Illustrationen, Karten 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 0062133403 0-06-213340-3 9780062133403 978-0-06-213340-3 |