Frozen in time
Subtitle: an epic story of survival, and a modern quest for lost heroes of World War II
By: Mitchell Zuckoff
Edition: First HarperLuxe edition.
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 543
ISBN-13: 9780062253750
Subjects: United States; United States. Army Air Forces; Search and rescue operations; World War, 1939-1945
Description: 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 vanished. The survivors of the B-17 spent 148 days fighting to stay alive while waiting for rescue by famed explorer Bernt Balchen. Then in 2012 the U.S. Coast Guard and North South Polar mount an expedition to solve the mystery of the vanished plane and recover the remains of the lost plane's crew.

This book tells the story and fate of the survivors of a 1942 B-17 crash as they spent 148 days fighting to stay alive while waiting for rescue by famed explorer Bernt Balchen. The text contains profanity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 541-543) and index.

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Table of contents: title: The Duck; title: Greenland; title: "A mother that devours her children"; title: Flying in milk; title: The duck hunter; title: Man down; title: A light in the darkness; title: The holy grail; title: Short snorters; title: Frozen tears; title: "Don't try it"; title: "MOs; title: quick!"; title: Taps; title: Glacier worms; title: Shooting out the lights; title: Snublebluss; title: Outwitting the Arctic; title: Shitbags; title: Dumbo on ice; title: Iceholes; title: Crossed wires; title: The ten-meter anomaly; title: "Some plan in this world"; title: Down to the wire; title: After Greenland.