Vanished
by Hylton, Wil S
In the fall of 1944, a massive American bomber carrying eleven men vanished over the Pacific islands of Palau, leaving a trail of mysteries. According to mission reports from the Army Air Forces, the plane crashed in shallow waterbut when investigators went to find it, the wreckage wasn't there. Witnesses saw the crew parachute to safety, yet the airmen were never seen again. Some of their relatives whispered that they had returned to the United States in secret and lived in hiding. But they never explained why. For sixty years, the U.S. government, the children of the missing airmen, and a maverick team of scientists and scuba divers searched the islands for clues. They trolled the water with side-scan sonar, conducted grid searches on the seafloor, crawled through thickets of mangrove and poison trees, and flew over the islands in small planes to shoot infrared photography. With every clue they found, the mystery only deepened. Now, in a spellbinding narrative, Wil S. Hylton weaves together the true story of the missing men, their final mission, the families they left behind, and the real reason their disappearance remained shrouded in secrecy for so long. This is a story of love, loss, sacrifice, and faith of the undying hope among the families of the missing, and the relentless determination of scientists, explorers, archaeologists, and deep-sea divers to solve one of the enduring mysteries of World War II.
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About the book: From a mesmerizing storyteller, the gripping search for a missing World War II crew, their bomber plane, and their legacy.
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* Vanished - The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II --Copyright 2013 by author. Cover photo by Tim Hetherington, book design by -Meighton Caranaugh. Full number line. Second edition. Jacket design by Alex Merto, Jacket Photographs: Palau, Tim Hetherington/Magnum Photos, Airplane, CA 1942 Courtesy Library of Congress. ..This book in in unread condition the only… Read more about this item Item Price
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