[bksvol-discuss] Wishlist -- Book requested
- From: "Judy s." <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:19:25 -0600
Hi all,
I just sent this to the wishlist, and thought I'd post it here today. If
anyone is interested in scanning it, I'll gladly proofread. I heard
about it this afternoon on Public Radio, and it sounds really interesting.
Judy s.
Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II
by Wil S. Hylton (Author)
Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover (November 5, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1594487278
ISBN-13: 978-1594487279
Review from Publisher's Weekly: Journalist Hylton highlights the
efforts to find missing American military personnel lost during WWII in
the Pacific theater. The focus of the story is Dr. Pat Scannon, an M.D.
with a doctorate in chemistry who became fascinated with the wreckage of
American military aircraft while on a 1993 diving expedition in the
Republic of Palau. The book follows Scannon as he establishes the
Bentprop project and leads repeated private expeditions to Palau to
search for the crash sites of the missing aircraft. One aircraft, a WWII
bomber, becomes his obsession, and Hylton's story traces Scannon's
decade-long quest to find it while highlighting many different and
important aspects of the search for America's lost military personnel
and recreating the lives, training, and combat experience of the young
crewmen who manned the lost aircraft. Hylton also describes the
physiological and emotional impact that MIA status has on the surviving
families of the lost men, and he details the extensive research
necessary to locate the remains of the aircraft; the active role of the
military's Joint MIA/POW Accounting Command; and the patience and time
necessary to achieve success. It&'s a well-told story of WWII heroism
and tragedy that demonstrates that the missing are not forgotten.
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