Wil S. Hylton
Hardcover | Pages: 288 pages Rating: 3.93 | 1891 Users | 244 Reviews
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| ISBN: | 1594487278 (ISBN13: 9781594487279) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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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 water—but 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.
Details Regarding Books Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II
| Title | : | Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II |
| Author | : | Wil S. Hylton |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 288 pages |
| Published | : | November 5th 2013 by Riverhead Books (first published 2013) |
| Categories | : | History. Nonfiction. War. World War II. Military Fiction |
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Ratings: 3.93 From 1891 Users | 244 ReviewsWrite Up Regarding Books Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II
This was an amazing, gripping, and at times suspenseful read that documents one man's sudden overwhelming desire to find out what happened to three B-24 Liberators shot down near Palau in the Pacific theater of World War II. Hylton does a great job of describing Pat Scannon's current-day journey of research, travel, interviews, heartaches, and elation in discovering the mystery of what happened to those lost B-24's, and shows a masterful job of interweaving that with the very personal back storyWell, although it kept my interest, it didn't turn out like I thought it would. I was hoping for some "grand revelation" about how the missing guys survived the plane crash and ended up in some secret government mission, etc. That, of course, is not anywhere near what the book is about. It's very similar to Hunting Warbirds: The Obsessive Quest for the Lost Aircraft of World War II in that there's a guy who becomes obsessed with finding a WWII aircraft crash. Where the Hoffman book recalls in
I couldn't put this book down - it is am amazing story of one man's quest to find airmen missing during WW2 in the waters off a small island in Micronesia . It is also the story of the devastating grief families go through when their loved ones are never found. I highly recommend it
A fascinating story of the men that were lost in the Pacific in World War II. The main part of the story revolves around the small island of Palau - and the searches that one man, Pat Scannon, spearheaded over 20+ years as he took on the mission of finding the Americans lost in Pacific. He went on to found the Bent Prop Project - an effort to locate the remains of Americans lost in WWII (and has since expanded to other conflicts) and provide closure to the families of the missing. Along the way,
In a single week of missions, the unit had lost more than 50 men.Or, war had a way of making ideology seem quaint in the face of survival, might be a more relevant maxim w/regard to the loss of so many airmen! But who were these guys, is what I want to know?! And I dont understand what the author meant by the word, unit; either, a Bomb Squadron or the Bomb Group. Or, maybe the (10) guys in any crew?! Still, I only see 2 numbers greater than 50 on the list of airmen lost, posted on the 307th Bomb
I was lucky to get an early copy of this book, and can't say enough about it. Taut, tragic, thrilling--it unfolds like a mystery and ghost story. Hylton is an unparalleled storyteller, and a deep-diving reporter, who's returned with a story of a lifetime here. For years, I've followed his work in major magazines from The New York Times Sunday Magazine to Harper's to GQ and Esquire, and I would put him at the top of the heap as a writer. His stories have ranged from political profiles to faraway
Interesting account of the long, tough search for missing air crews shot down over the Pacific during the Battle of Pelelui in 1944. Most people, when thinking about MIA's, think about the 880 MIA's from the Viet Nam War. WWII by contrast, had 83,000 MIA's! The search for these air crews were became the obsession of dedicated team of marine archaeologist / patriots.
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