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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Nick Veronico |
ISBN: | 9780760344095 0760344094 |
OCLC Number: | 824532572 |
Description: | 256 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: how the hunt for hidden warbirds has evolved -- Up from under water -- Two of the rarest: simultaneous Navy SB2C and SBD restorations -- The last Vindicator: SB2U-2 up from Lake Michigan -- Two Navy crosses in SBD-2 Buno 2106 -- In from the jungle -- B-17E Swamp Ghost and its long road home -- Recovering the Mt. Cyclops P-61 Black Widow -- Bringing out a Betty, Judy, Tony, and a Zero -- Big Island B-18 in situ -- The frozen north -- P-38 Glacier Girl -- The Million Dollar Valley Marauders -- Alaskan Liberators: one in place, one recovered -- Lucky finds: rare warbirds in unusual places -- P-51D (F-6D) Lil Margaret -- Navy harpoon on a grass strip -- Some assembly required: B-17E/XC-108 Desert Rat -- Recovering the big fleets: squadrons return -- Rescued from a desert boneyard: the B-29s of China Lake -- Corsairs recovered from Honduras -- Latin American Mustangs fuel the warbird movement -- Epilogue: they're still out there. |
Responsibility: | Nick A. Veronico. |
Abstract:
Veronico explores the romantic era of World War II warbirds and the stories of some of its most famous wrecks, including the "Swamp Ghost" (a B-17E which crashed in New Guinea in the early days of World War II and which was only recently recovered), and "Glacier Girl" (a P-38, part of "The Lost Squadron," which crashed in a large ice sheet in Greenland in 1942). Throughout, Veronico provides a history of the aircraft, as well as the unique story behind each discovery and recovery with ample illustrations.
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