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Book

Final flight : the mystery of a WWII plane crash and the frozen airmen in the High Sierra

Call Number

  • 940.544 S8239 (OSH)

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Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

Berkeley, CA : Wilderness Press, 2010.

Physical Description

xi, 236 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 21 cm.

Notes

"A true story"--cover.

Contents

  • A body in the glacier
  • Home from the mountain
  • Who is the frozen airman?
  • The more I know, the less I know
  • Playing detective
  • First discovery : 1947
  • What was recovered : 1948
  • The frozen airman is identified
  • The frozen airman is not alone : August 2007
  • My report
  • On the trail of the second airman
  • Understanding the Beech 18 at-7 Navigator
  • The boys
  • Their training
  • They weren't the only ones
  • It rained cats and dogs all day
  • Carried by flight : a scenario for disaster
  • East to West : a more probable scenario
  • Please remember me.

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