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Cargando... Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War IIpor Wil S. Hylton
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Some of the fiercest battles in the Pacific in WWII were over Palau. In the 1990s, a successful entrepreneur and scientist found his life’s calling to find the planes that had been shot down over the island and bring closure to many families who still had MIAs. As with his bioengineering business, his mission succeeded and this is part his story as well as a son who never knew his father, a gunner on one of the downed planes. ( ) I read this as my reading the world book for Palau. I'm not much interested in military history but this was a human story and Wil S Hylton managed to keep my interest throughout. He mixes up general information about the war in the Pacific, much of which, living in Europe, I was very ignorant of and the personal stories of the airmen and thier families. This made it a very readable and fascinating account. Well, although it kept my interest, it didn't turn out like I thought it would. I was hoping for some "grand revelation" about how the missing guys survived the plane crash and ended up in some secret government mission, etc. That, of course, is not anywhere near what the book is about. It's very similar to [b:Hunting Warbirds: The Obsessive Quest for the Lost Aircraft of World War II|1036230|Hunting Warbirds The Obsessive Quest for the Lost Aircraft of World War II|Carl Hoffman|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1320430817s/1036230.jpg|1022568] in that there's a guy who becomes obsessed with finding a WWII aircraft crash. Where the Hoffman book recalls in agonizing detail how men attempt to get a B-29 to fly again, this Hylton book flips back and forth between the most recent decade and 1944, and illustrates the details that lead up to the _finding_ of a B-24. Along the way, some mysteries are uncovered that the reader never has the satisfaction of finding out the answers to. Fairly quick read, but nothing special here. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. This book was a fantastic read, highly recommended for anyone interested in World War 2 and the search for lost wrecks. Very interesting to learn the background on the search and wreck.
Of the 83,000 American service members registered as missing over the past century, more than half, or 47,000, disappeared in the Pacific theater during World War II. In his first book, Hylton, a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine, details the search for 11 of them, airmen whose bomber vanished in a crash off the tiny Pacific archipelago of Palau in September 1944. Excavating military records and the soldiers’ letters to their wives, Hylton raises the prospect that some of the men may have survived, even assumed new identities. That notion, however, can be dismissed — it’s clear from the start that this is a book about finding closure for the families, many of whom hadn’t let go of the belief that their husbands and fathers might someday return.
" 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"--
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