Frozen in Time

Frozen in Time

by Zuckoff, Mitchell

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In Nov. 1942 a U.S. cargo plane crashed into the Greenland ice cap, the B-17 sent on the search-and-rescue mission got caught in a storm and also crashed, miraculously all nine men aboard survived. A second rescue operation was launched, but the plane, the Grumman Duck, flew into a storm and vanished. The survivors of the B-17 spent 148 days fighting to stay alive while waiting for rescue by famed explorer Bernt Balchen. Then in 2012 the U.S. Coast Guard and North South Polar mount an expeditio…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Frozen in Time / Mitchell Zuckoff.

Summary

In Nov. 1942 a U.S. cargo plane crashed into the Greenland ice cap, the B-17 sent on the search-and-rescue mission got caught in a storm and also crashed, miraculously all nine men aboard survived. A second rescue operation was launched, but the plane, the Grumman Duck, flew into a storm and vanished. The survivors of the B-17 spent 148 days fighting to stay alive while waiting for rescue by famed explorer Bernt Balchen. Then in 2012 the U.S. Coast Guard and North South Polar mount an expedition to solve the mystery of the vanished plane and recover the remains of the lost plane's crew.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2013.
  • Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Harper
  • Place of Publication:New York, NY
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2013.

The Physical Object

  • Description:xiii, 391 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0062133438, 9780062133434, 0062269372, 9780062269379, 0062133411, 9780062133410
  • oclc:on1003815931
  • LC Classification:D810.S45
  • Dewey Decimal:998.2

Table of Contents

Prologue : the duck -- Greenland -- "A mother that devours her children" -- Flying in milk -- The duck hunter -- A shallow turn -- Man down -- A light in the darkness -- The holy grail -- Short snorters -- Frozen tears -- "Don't try it" -- "MOs -- Quick!" -- Taps -- Glacier worms -- Shooting out the lights -- Snublebluss -- Outwitting the Arctic -- Shitbags -- Dumbo on ice -- Iceholes -- Crossed wires -- The Ten-meter anomaly -- "Some plan in this world" -- Down to the wire -- After Greenland.

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Subjects

Airplane crash survival Airplane crash survival -- Greenland Armed Forces -- Search and rescue opera… Greenland Greenland -- History, Military -- 20th … Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Opération… Military history Search and rescue operations Survie après accidents d'avion -- Groen… United States., Army Air Forces World War, 1939-1945 -- Search and resc…

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Zuckoff, Mitchell

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