The Lost Squadron: A Fleet of Warplanes Locked in Ice For 50 Years
de Hayes, David
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good/Very Good, Not Price Clipped
- ISBN 10
- 0747518262
- ISBN 13
- 9780747518266
- Librería
-
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Sobre este artículo
London, England: Bloomsbury Publications, 1994. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. British First. A bit of edge wear to boards and dust jacket; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; well illustrated with both black and white and colour photographs as well as a colour diagram and map..
Sinopsis
On July 15, 1942, a squadron of six P-38 Lightnings and two B-17 Flying Fortress bombers was flying from Greenland to Iceland when they ran head-on into an Arctic blizzard. As conditions deteriorated they decided to turn back, only to then discover that the base there [Greenland] was socked in. Running desperately low on fuel the two bombers and six fighter planes crash-landed on the ice cap in the largest forced landing in history. The crews had been rescued but their brand-new warplanes were left on the ice cap. Pat Epps and Richard Taylor heard the story in August 1980. For the next twelve years, this story would lead Epps and Taylor into an extraordinary adventure that would prove more challenging then either of them would have dreamed possible. The planes lay 260 ft down, under the ice, the equivalent of a 25 story building. And no machine in existence was capable of digging hundreds of feet into solid ice to retrieve a ten-ton airplane with a fifty-two foot wingspan. Here, the story is grippingly told and lavishly illustrated with hundreds of fascinating photographs, paintings and diagrams.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Hourglass Books
(CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 016619
- Título
- The Lost Squadron: A Fleet of Warplanes Locked in Ice For 50 Years
- Autor
- Hayes, David
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good, Not Price Clipped
- Edición
- British First
- ISBN 10
- 0747518262
- ISBN 13
- 9780747518266
- Editorial
- Bloomsbury Publications
- Lugar de publicación
- London, England
- Fecha de publicación
- 1994
- Palabras clave
- Military Aircraft - Recovery Operations
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