The Lost Squadron
Subtitle: a fleet of warplanes locked in ice for fifty years
By: by David Hayes
Publisher: Konecky & Konecky, LLC
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Old Saybrook, Connecticut
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781568527666
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; American Ariel operations; Lightning (Fighter plane); Conservation and restoration; Lightning (Avion de chasse); Conservation et restauration
Description: A lavishly illustrated work records the amazing reclamation of a fleet of American World War II warplanes buried in ice in Greenland since the war and recovered by two amateur aviation enthusiasts. 35,000 first printing.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Part One: The Legend; title: Squadron down; title: Part Two: You haven't failed until you quit; title: Here lies big stoop; title: Part Three: The Recovery; title: Tar baby; title: Dreamers of the day; title: Epilogue; title: Appendix.