Frozen in time : an epic story of survival and a modern quest for the lost heroes of World War II
by Zuckoff, Mitchell (Author)
Summary
In November 1942, a U.S. cargo plane crashed into the Greenland ice cap. A B-17 sent on the search-and-rescue mission got caught in a storm and also crashed. Miraculously, all nine men aboard survived. A second rescue operation was launched, but the plane, the Grumman Duck, flew into a storm and van... Full description
- Prologue: The duck
- Greenland
- "A mother that devours her children"
- Flying in milk
- The duck hunter
- A shallow turn
- Man down
- A light in the darkness
- The holy grail
- Short snorters
- Frozen tears
- "Don't try it"
- "MOs-quick!"
- Taps
- Glacier worms
- Shooting out the lights
- Snublebluss
- Outwitting the Arctic
- Shitbags
- Dumbo on ice
- Iceholes
- Crossed wires
- The ten-meter anomaly
- "Some plan in this world"
- Down to the wire
- Epilogue: After Greenland
- Postscript.