VANISHED - THE SIXTY-YEAR SEARCH FOR THE MISSING MEN OF WORLD WAR Ⅱ

摘要

On 1 September 1944, a B-24J, tail number 42-73453, from the 307th Bombardment Group "Long Rangers" was shot down over the Pacific island of Palau. Although the plane was observed to catch fire, eventually explode into large pieces and fall to the sea near the island, the fate of the crew remained unknown for over 60 years. This wonderful book chronicles the efforts of Pat Scannon, M.D., Ph.D., to find this missing plane and its crew: from his discovery of a B-24 wing during a vacation trip to Palau in 1993 until the final underwater excavation efforts in 2008. His dogged determination, becoming an obsession after multiple trips to Palau over many years, relates his ability to evolve his thinking, organizational skills and motives as he tried to solve this mystery.