on Duck Hunt mission, 227, 249, 267, 269, 308
Turner, Kenneth “Pappy,” 212, 341
at Bluie East Two, 184, 210–11
and communications, 214, 216, 236–37, 239
death of, 328
Distinguished Flying Cross awarded to, 328
and Duck location, 152, 153, 176, 191, 194, 195
and rescue missions, 232, 261, 264, 287, 291
and supply drops, 173–74, 180, 184–85, 186, 208, 210–12, 213–16, 238, 258–60, 284, 286
UFOs (unidentified frozen objects), 299
United States:
entry into World War II, 16–17
treaty with Norway, 117
University of Kansas, CReSIS, 194
Vaughan, Norman, 100–101
Wade, Jimmie, 204–6, 341
Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 235
warbirds, collectors of, 97–98
War Department, U.S., 209
warplanes, aluminum production for, 15
Waters, Nathan, 215, 289, 328, 338
Weaver, Arthur, 341
and crash landing, 80
and ferrying mission, 79
and frozen feet, 85
and hypothermia, 88–89
on Northland, 124
rescue of, 83–90, 89, 114, 127
and survival, 80–84, 89–90
traveling with dinghy, 82–86
Wedel, Clarence, 169–70, 169, 341
and crash, 54
fall in crevasse, 177–79, 184, 212, 214, 274
Legion of Merit awarded to, 178
loss of, 297, 322, 331–32
mechanical repairs by, 109–10, 111, 112, 172–73, 179
and rescue, 148
and search for C-53, 33, 37
and self-rescue motorsled attempt, 175–77
and survival, 112, 155, 168, 172
Wedel, Helen, 170, 331
Wimsatt, Robert, 118, 207–9, 341
Women’s Army Corps, and rescue mission, 187
World War II:
aircraft lost in, 40
B-17s in, 30–32
Battle of the Atlantic, 208
blitzkrieg in, 14
and Coast Guard, 15, 93
and cryolite mine, 14–16
German surrender in, 318
Greenland in, 14–18, 40
and military personnel unaccounted for, 44, 97
news censored in, 188, 318
and overseas military gravesites, 97
Pearl Harbor attack in, 17
in Scandinavia, 117, 123
and souvenir hunters, 96–98, 201
U.S. entry into, 16–17
U.S. neutrality in, 16
Yates, Erma Ray, 106
Zuckoff, Mitchell, 312, 335
About the Author
MITCHELL ZUCKOFF is the author of Lost in Shangri-La, a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Winship/PEN New England Award. His previous books include Robert Altman: The Oral Biography and Ponzi’s Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend. He has written for national and regional publications and is a former special projects reporter for the Boston Globe, where he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for investigative reporting. He is a professor of journalism at Boston University and lives outside Boston.
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Also by Mitchell Zuckoff
Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
Robert Altman: The Oral Biography
Ponzi’s Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend
Judgment Ridge: The True Story Behind the Dartmouth Murders (with Dick Lehr)
Choosing Naia: A Family’s Journey
Credits
Cover design by Richard Ljoenes
Cover photographs: U.S. Coast Guard photograph (airplane); courtesy of Carol Sue Spencer Podraza (crevasse); David Rumsey Map Collection, www.davidrumsey.com (map)
Maps designed by Springer Cartographics, LLC
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