e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Call Number
Item Barcode
Bib Number
ISBN/ISSN
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
Booklist Review
Library Journal Review
Publisher Weekly Review
More Content
More by this author
Hylton, Wil S.
Subjects
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Palau
World War, 1939-1945 -- Missing in action -- United States.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Missing in action -- Palau.
Aircraft accidents -- Investigation -- Palau.
Airmen -- United States -- Biography.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Hylton, Wil S.
by title:
Vanished : the sixty...
by call number:
940.5426 H996v
Search the Web
Hylton, Wil S.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Palau
World War, 1939-1945 -- Missing in action -- United States.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Missing in action -- Palau.
Aircraft accidents -- Investigation -- Palau.
Airmen -- United States -- Biography.
MARC Display
Vanished : the sixty-year search for the missing men of World War II / by Wil S. Hylton.
by
Hylton, Wil S.
Riverhead Hardcover, 2013.
Call #:
940
.5426
H996v
Subjects
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Palau
World War, 1939-1945 -- Missing in action -- United States.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Missing in action -- Palau.
Aircraft accidents -- Investigation -- Palau.
Airmen -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781594487279 (hc.)
1594487278 (hc.)
Description:
272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"From a mesmerizing storyteller, the gripping search for a missing World War II crew, their bomber plane, and their legacy. On September 1, 1944, a massive American bomber carrying eleven men vanished over the tiny Pacific archipelago of Palau, leaving behind a trail of mysteries. For more than sixty years, the U.S. government, the children of the missing airmen, and a maverick team of scientists and scuba divers searched the archipelago for clues with cutting-edge technology and unyielding determination. They crawled through thickets of mangrove and slogged into groves of poison trees, flew over the islands in private planes shooting infrared photography, trolled the water with magnetometers and side-scan sonar, and launched grid searches on the seafloor, but the trail seemed to lead nowhere. Now, in a spellbinding narrative, Wil S. Hylton weaves together the true tale of the missing men, their final days, the loved ones left wondering, and the broad sweep of world events that converged upon their last mission. With more than 56,000 troops still missing, the Pacific theater of World War II accounts for two-thirds of all American MIAs over the past century. These soldiers have never been seen again. But our government has never stopped trying to find them, and for two generations, their families have passed down the wounds of war, unable to find closure in a story without an ending. This is the story of those missing soldiers, the families they left behind, and the legion of scientists, explorers, archeologists, and deep-sea divers who offered everything to finally give their story an ending"--Provided by publisher.
Holds:
0
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Alderney Gate Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
940.5426 H996v
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Sackville Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
940.5426 H996v
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Cole Harbour Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
940.5426 H996v
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.