Cold Sun : The Search for World War II Airmen Lost in a Tibetan Glacier /

" In January 1944, a US Army Air Corps transport, en route to its home base in India, crashed into a snowfield in Tibet, killing all crew members. Because of the remote location and fierce winter weather, the aircraft was covered by heavy snowfall. The snowfield glaciated, completely hiding the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Jordan, William H. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2023]
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
U.S. Army Central Identification Laboratory.
United States. > Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency > History.
Search and rescue operations.
Repatriation of war dead.
Missing in action.
Airplanes, Military > Accidents > Investigation.
HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General.
HISTORY / Military / Aviation & Space.
Missing in action > United States > Identification.
Repatriation of war dead > United States > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Search and rescue operations > Himalaya Mountains.
World War, 1939-1945 > Search and rescue operations > China > Bomi Xian.
Airplanes, Military > Accidents > Investigation > Himalaya Mountains.
Airplanes, Military > Accidents > Investigation > China > Bomi Xian.
World War, 1939-1945 > Missing in action > United States.
World War, 1939-1945 > Repatriation of war dead > United States.
United States.
Himalaya Mountains.
China > Bomi Xian.
Bomi Xian (China) > History, Military.
Military history.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / the Honorable Mac Thornberry
  • Preface: The Hunter, September 1993 / William H. Jordan
  • Reflections: A Retrospective Overview
  • Legacy: "Bring My Boy Home"
  • Foreign Shores, Global Conflict
  • On Their Shields
  • Known but to God
  • "Ain't Our Fight"
  • Operators
  • The Last "Peaceful" Season: A Pilot's Odyssey
  • Crucible: Postwar Vietnam and the United States
  • A Bloody Shirt
  • Politics, Policy, and Follies
  • Maturation: Antagonists
  • Over the "Rockpile"
  • Breaking a Logjam: Desert Storm and the Senate Select Committee
  • CILHI: Search, Recover, Identify
  • The Third Incarnation of the JPRC
  • the JTF-FA
  • Closed States, Closed Gates, and Deadly Pyres
  • A Nation Ascendant, a Nation Eclipsed
  • Contingent: Chinese Winter
  • "Reckon That's about the Size of It, I Guess"
  • Futile Hope, Quagmired Nation
  • A Jorhat Crew's Cautionary Tale
  • Refining of the Pilots
  • Resurrection: Maelstrom
  • Rough Road, Rough Garrison
  • Glaciers and Snowfields
  • Bringing Them to Life
  • Sacred Searchers
  • Epilogue: "This Is a Holy Place"
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes.

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