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Aeronautics, Military Accidents Alaska Air pilots, Military United States Biography Airplane crash survival Alaska B-24 (Bomber) Accidents Alaska BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military Crane, Leon 1919-2002 HISTORY / Military / World War II Wilderness survival Alaska World War, 1939-1945 Aerial operations, American World War, 1939-1945 AlaskaBruning, John R.
Summary: "This little-known WWII story introduces a renegade pilot whose personal mission to rescue his family from a POW camp changed modern air warfare forever. December 1941: Manila is invaded, and US citizen and Philippine Airlines manager, Pappy Gunn, is ordered to fly key military command out of the country, leaving his family at home. So Gunn was miles away when the Japanese captured his wife and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2016
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Summary: "Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska's Ladd Field on a test flight. Only one ever returned: Leon Crane, a city kid from Philadelphia with little more than a parachute on his back when he bailed from his B-24 Liberator before it crashed into the Arctic. Alone in subzero temperatures, Crane managed to stay alive in the dead of the Yukon winter for nearly twelve weeks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2015