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The Lost Squadron; A Fleet of Warplanes Locked in Ice for Fifty Years
by David Hayes
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 078582376X
- ISBN 13
- 9780785823766
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Edison, NJ: Chartwell Books, 2008 Chartwell Books, Edison. 2008. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. DJ: Fine. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. 223 pp. Blue cloth boards with bright gold gilt lettering. The Lost Squadron of six P-38 Lightinings and two B-17s ditched their mission in Greenland in 1942; the crews were rescued but their warplanes were left on the ice cap. Buried for years in snow and ice this is the story of how one P-38 was retrieved, restored, and flew again. A pristine copy.
Synopsis
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
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000931
- Title
- The Lost Squadron; A Fleet of Warplanes Locked in Ice for Fifty Years
- Author
- David Hayes
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 078582376X
- ISBN 13
- 9780785823766
- Publisher
- Chartwell Books
- Place of Publication
- Edison, NJ
- Date Published
- 2008
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
- Keywords
- THE LOST SQUADRON, GREENLAND, P-38F LIGHTINING, B-17, FORK-TAILED DEVIL, MILITARY AIRCRAFT, AIRCRAFT RESTORATIONS,
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About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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