Hunting Warbirds: The Obsessive Quest for the Lost Aircraft of World War II - Hardcover

Hoffman, Carl

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0345436172 ISBN 13: 9780345436177

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 2001

Synopsis

Describes the efforts of Darryl Greenamyer to salvage a B-29 Superfortress that had crashlanded in Greenland a half century earlier and of other individuals who search for, collect, salvage, and restore vintage World War II aircraft. 20,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Carl Hoffman is a freelance journalist who writes for numerous magazines, including Men’s Journal, Air & Space, Smithsonian Magazine, and National Geographic Adventure. He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife and three children.

From the Inside Flap:

d treasure” they call them–the lost remains of the great American fighter planes and bombers that won World War II. Hellcats and Superfortresses, Corsairs and Dauntlesses. Produced by the thousands at the height of the war, and then cast off as scrap in the decades that followed, these warbirds are now worth literally anything–fortunes, families, even lives–to the people who search for them. Like many men, writer Carl Hoffman was bitten by the warbird bug as a child. But he never imagined that he would one day witness and participate in a heroic adventure himself–the most audacious warbird rescue attempt of all time.

The crash of the Kee Bird B-29 Superfortress made banner headlines in 1947 when a team of Air Force pilots pulled off the near-miraculous feat of locating the wreck in Greenland and snatching its stranded crew from the teeth of the arctic winter. For nearly half a century, the almost perfectly intact warbird lay abandoned on a lake of ice–b

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0345436172
• ISBN 13: 9780345436177
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 245