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Zuckoff, Mitchell.
Lost in Shangri-la :
a true story of survival, adventure, and the most incredible rescue mission of World War II /
Mitchell Zuckoff.
True story of survival, adventure, and the most incredible rescue mission of World War II.
New York :
Harper Perennial,
℗♭2012.
xii, 432 pages :
illustrations ;
20 cm.
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Originally published in hardcover in 2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Missing -- Hollandia -- Shangri-La -- Gremlin Special -- Eureka! -- Charms -- Tarzan -- Gentleman explorer -- Guilt and gangrene -- Earl Walter, Junior and Senior -- Uwambo -- Wimayuk Wandik, aka "Chief Pete" -- Come what may -- Five-by-five -- No Thanksgiving -- Rammy and Doc -- Custer and company -- Bathtime for Yugwe -- "Shoo, shoo baby" -- "Hey, Martha!" -- Promised land -- Hollywood -- Gliders? -- Two queens -- Snatch -- Epilogue: After Shangri-La.
Award-winning former Boston Globe reporter Mitchell Zuckoff unleashes the exhilarating, untold story of an extraordinary World War II rescue mission, where a plane crash in the South Pacific plunged a trio of U.S. military personnel into the jungle-clad land of New Guinea.
20200101.
United States
Army Air Forces
Search and rescue operations.
World War, 1939-1945
Missing in action
New Guinea.
World War, 1939-1945
Search and rescue operations
New Guinea.
World War, 1939-1945
Search and rescue operations
United States.
World War, 1939-1945
Aerial operations, American.
Airplane crash survival
New Guinea.
Aircraft accidents
New Guinea.
Indigenous peoples
New Guinea.
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