London: Bloomsbury, 1994. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. . First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (blue boards with silver titling to the spine & upper board) Physically 11¼” x 8¾” (1.4 kg); 223pp; Index; Bibliography; Contains: Black & white photographs; Colour photographs; Colour drawings; Diagrams; Maps; Photographic end papers & blanks; 2 column text; ISBN: 0-747-51826-2 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #182359|| Condition:

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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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Bookseller: BookLovers of Bath (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 182359
Title: The Lost Squadron
Author: David Hayes
Format/Binding: Hardback in Dust Wrapper.
Book Condition: Used - Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper.
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0747518262
ISBN 13: 9780747518266
Publisher: London: Bloomsbury
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1994
Keywords: greenland, ditched greenland, p-38 lightnings, b-17 flying fortress bombers, planes crash landed, 94th fighter squadron first group, operation bolero, u.s. warplanes, first edition books, books written by david hayes, 0747518262

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BookLovers of Bath is set in the pastoral idyll of Peasedown St. John in Somerset (God's Own Country) in the south west of England. My wife and I owned the village Post Office until the modern world caught up with us in 2014. At that point I converted the premises to a small book shop, Fact or Fable, with a stock of around 4,000 titles in stock. I've been selling books worldwide since 1997 and rather hope to get the hang of it shortly…

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