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Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II
Escrito por Mitchell Zuckoff
Narrado por Mitchell Zuckoff
Ações de livro
Comece a ouvir- Editora:
- HarperAudio
- Lançado em:
- Apr 23, 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780062249852
- Formato:
- Audiolivro
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Descrição
On November 5, 1942, a U.S. cargo plane slammed into the Greenland ice cap. Four days later, a B-17 on the search-and-rescue mission also crashed. Miraculously, all nine men on the B-17 survived. The U.S. military launched a second daring rescue operation, but the Grumman Duck amphibious plane sent to find the men vanished.
In this thrilling adventure, Mitchell Zuckoff offers a spellbinding account of these harrowing crashes and the fate of the survivors and their would-be saviors. Frozen in Time places us at the center of a group of valiant airmen fighting to stay alive through 148 days of a brutal Arctic winter until an expedition attempts to bring them to safety. But that is only part of the story. In present-day Greenland, Zuckoff joins the Coast Guard and North South Polar Inc. on a dangerous expedition to recover the remains of the lost plane's crew.
Frozen in Time is a breathtaking blend of mystery, adventure, heroism, and survival. It is also a poignant reminder of the sacrifices of our military personnel and their families-and a tribute to the important, perilous, and often overlooked work of the U.S. Coast Guard.
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Comece a ouvirDados do livro
Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II
Escrito por Mitchell Zuckoff
Narrado por Mitchell Zuckoff
Nota do Editor
Descrição
On November 5, 1942, a U.S. cargo plane slammed into the Greenland ice cap. Four days later, a B-17 on the search-and-rescue mission also crashed. Miraculously, all nine men on the B-17 survived. The U.S. military launched a second daring rescue operation, but the Grumman Duck amphibious plane sent to find the men vanished.
In this thrilling adventure, Mitchell Zuckoff offers a spellbinding account of these harrowing crashes and the fate of the survivors and their would-be saviors. Frozen in Time places us at the center of a group of valiant airmen fighting to stay alive through 148 days of a brutal Arctic winter until an expedition attempts to bring them to safety. But that is only part of the story. In present-day Greenland, Zuckoff joins the Coast Guard and North South Polar Inc. on a dangerous expedition to recover the remains of the lost plane's crew.
Frozen in Time is a breathtaking blend of mystery, adventure, heroism, and survival. It is also a poignant reminder of the sacrifices of our military personnel and their families-and a tribute to the important, perilous, and often overlooked work of the U.S. Coast Guard.
- Editora:
- HarperAudio
- Lançado em:
- Apr 23, 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780062249852
- Formato:
- Audiolivro
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After reading Mitchell Zuckoff’s Lost in Shangri-La, I jumped at the chance to review another one of his true stories about a daring rescue and Frozen In Time didn’t disappoint. The book was clearly very well researched. The personal details the author had collected about everyone involved made me feel deeply invested in their survival. The precise details shared about every aspect of the rescue mission served as a reminder that this was a true story, as did the amazing black-and-white pictures included throughout.
A few parts were a little hard to follow. Sometimes details about several different people were given in consecutive paragraphs. This could become both boring and hard to keep track of, but a great “cast of characters” section in the back helped me remember all the different people involved. It also would have helped to have specific dates at the beginning of each chapter instead of just month and year. However, these were very minor flaws and I spent most of the book deeply engaged, wondering if the Duck would be found and if the men on the B-17 would ever be rescued. The author does an amazing job of conveying the fact that this was a true story with stunningly heroic people involved. I would highly recommend it to fans of narrative non-fiction or incredible adventure stories.
This review first published on Doing Dewey.
In Nov. 1942 a U.S. cargo plane crashed into the Greenland ice cap, the 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 vanished. The survivors of the B-17 spent 148 days fighting to stay alive while waiting for rescue by famed explorer Bernt Balchen. Then in 2012 the U.S. Coast Guard and North South Polar mount an expedition to solve the mystery of the vanished plane and recover the remains of the lost plane's crew.
My Thoughts:
Frozen in Time is a compelling account of survival in one of the remotest corners of the world. The time is the early days of America's involvement in World War II and the place is Greenland. The author, Mitchell Zuckoff, gives us the background of the purpose of being there and the challenges that accompany that purpose. Within a relatively short number of pages, we encounter a US airplane that has crash-landed well into the barren and frozen tundra of Greenland. The 9 or so crew members are a long ways from rescue. You have to remember that this was 73 years in the past. There are great efforts and greater failures and the story of these men is the story that will hold your attention. This book is the account of a great adventure and as you know...adventures don't always turn out the way you want. I couldn't even imagine 1 day in this environment let alone 148. I found this a terrific story about courage and dedication of those who served during World War II in capacities other than combat. I will admit that if I had not needed a book set during this time period for a challenge I probably would never had read this book but having done so I recommend this book. It's a great testament of the sacrifices made by all who served in uniform. I give it 4 stars.
The story alternates the various Army, Coast Guard, and Navy exploits in 1942 and 1943 with the 2012 efforts of an American adventurer, Lou Sapienza, to recover the remains of the Duck. Sapienza had some previous experience in recovering aircraft lost in the Arctic; he got one of a whole flight of P-38s out from under the ice. The Coast Guard had an interest; there were three WWII Coastguardsmen missing in action; one had died in a Japanese POW camp and was deemed unrecoverable; the other two were John Pritchard Jr. and Benjamin Bottoms, the pilot and radioman of the Duck. The Coast Guard was therefore persuaded to loan Sapienza a C-130 to transport him and his crew to Greenland when he claimed he could locate and recover the Duck and the remains of the crew and passenger. Sapienza and his team (which included author Zuckoff) unfortunately come off just as poorly prepared as the WWII AAF. Their clothing was adequate, but their search and recovery equipment – or, rather, their use of it – was not. In particular, they had a set of state-of-the-art GPS receivers, but nobody knew how to use them, and a magnetometer, but nobody knew how to use that either. Their search was based on Coast Guard personal GPS equipment, a team member’s tentative understanding of the magnetometer, and a ground-penetrating radar (at least the operator of that was familiar with the equipment). Their plan was to use 1940’s hand drawn maps of the Duck crash site (which was now assumed to be under many feet of ice), get a signal from the ground-penetrating radar and/or magnetometer, melt down to the wreck with a steam gun, confirm identification with a downhole camera, and come back next year to actually recover it. As is typical of these sorts of stories, on their last day on the ice they got a promising signal, melted down, and photographed something that they and the Coast Guard agreed was part of the Duck. That’s where this book ends in 2012.
Alas, it hasn’t come off. It’s hard to tell exactly what happened from the web, but apparently the Duck’s location was lost after the 2012 mission and another group is trying to locate the wreck again.
A quick and exciting read; the alternating time line keeps things interesting and Zuckoff manages to keep things exciting even though everybody knows what happened. Photographs of participants and scenery from both 1942 and 2012. Could use one modern map; there are historic maps but nothing that shows the 2012 expedition’s location (although perhaps that’s deliberate; Sapienza’s group might have worried about another team jumping their claim and the Coast Guard had already expressed concerns about relic hunters).
The modern-day story of the attempt to locate the wreckage of one of the planes involved is a little less compelling, especially as the resolution is not exactly what a reader would ideally hope for. (Trying not to be spoiler-y!) I'll definitely be checking out Zuckoff's website to see if there are further developments in the future...but still, overall I thought this was a great book and one I would definitely recommend to both history buffs and fans of survival stories!