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Lost in Shangri-la : a true story of survival, adventure, and the most incredible rescue mission of World War II  Cover Image Book Book

Lost in Shangri-la : a true story of survival, adventure, and the most incredible rescue mission of World War II / Mitchell Zuckoff.

Zuckoff, Mitchell. (Author).

Summary:

Award-winning former Boston Globe reporter Mitchell Zuckoff unleashes the exhilarating, untold story of an extraordinary World War II rescue mission, where a plane crash in the South Pacific plunged a trio of U.S. military personnel into the jungle-clad land of New Guinea.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780061988356
  • ISBN: 0061988359
  • Physical Description: xii, 384 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Harper Perennial, [2011]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [368]-370) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Missing -- Hollandia -- Shangri-La -- Gremlin Special -- Eureka! -- Charms -- Tarzan -- Gentleman explorer -- Guilt and gangrene -- Earl Walter, Junior and Senior -- Uwambo -- Wimayuk Wandik, aka "Chief Pete" -- Come What May -- Five-by-Five -- No Thanksgiving -- Rammy and Doc -- Custer and Company -- Bathtime for Yugwe -- "Shoo, Shoo Baby" -- "Hey, Martha!" -- Promised Land -- Hollywood -- Gliders? -- Two Queens -- Snatch.
Subject: United States. Army Air Forces > Search and rescue operations.
World War, 1939-1945 > Missing in action > New Guinea.
Airplane crash survival > New Guinea.
Aircraft accidents > New Guinea.
World War, 1939-1945 > Search and rescue operations > New Guinea.
World War, 1939-1945 > Search and rescue operations > United States.
World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, American.
Anthropology > New Guinea.
Prehistoric peoples > New Guinea.

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Columbia Gorge Community College Library World History Zucko 2011 (Text) 33892002492321 Main Collection In transit -


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