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The Lost Squadron: A True Story
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The Lost Squadron: A True Story Hardcover - 1994

by David Hayes


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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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A lavishly illustrated work records the amazing reclamation of a fleet of American World War II warplanes buried in ice in Greenland since the war and recovered by two amateur aviation enthusiasts.

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  • Title The Lost Squadron: A True Story
  • Author David Hayes
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Hyperion Books, New York
  • Date 1994
  • ISBN 9780786860487 / 0786860480
  • Weight 2.58 lbs (1.17 kg)
  • Dimensions 11.34 x 8.87 x 0.9 in (28.80 x 22.53 x 2.29 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94010507
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.544
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