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The Lost Squadron
de Hayes, David
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0747518262
- ISBN 13
- 9780747518266
- Librería
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Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
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Sobre este artículo
London: Bloomsbury Publications. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1994. 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. 0747518262 . DJ shows very light shelf wear, short tear top spine. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; B&W and Colour photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 224 pages; During World War II in 1942, a fleet of warplanes consisting of two B-17 "Flying Fortress" bombers and six P-38 Lightning fighters were flying on a transfer run from North America to Scotland. During the leg of the flight from Greenland to Iceland, they ran into severe weather over the Denmark Strait and were forced to turn back. Unfortunately, all the landing fields within their fuel range were socked in under the same weather conditions. Running low on fuel, the two bombers and four of the Lightning fighters were forced to crash-land on the coast of Greenland. All personnel survived the landings and were eventually rescued, however the aircraft were abandoned to the elements. Over 50 years later, and expedition was mounted by Pat Epps and Richard Taylor to possibly recover one or more of the aircraft, by this time under more than 200 feet of snow and ice. This book is an account of the search, discovery and eventual recovery of one of the P-38's by one of the expedition members. .
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
- Ainsworth Books
(CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 20004
- Título
- The Lost Squadron
- Autor
- Hayes, David
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edición
- 1st UK Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0747518262
- ISBN 13
- 9780747518266
- Editorial
- Bloomsbury Publications
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1994
- Palabras clave
- 0747518262
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Aviation; Militaria;
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Chilliwack, British Columbia
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