81 days below zero
the incredible survival story of a World War II pilot in Alaska's frozen wilderness
by Murphy, Brian
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"Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska's Ladd Field on a test flight. Only one ever returned: Leon Crane, a city kid from Philadelphia with little more than a parachute on his back when he bailed from his B-24 Liberator before it crashed into the Arctic. Alone in subzero temperatures, Crane managed to stay alive in the dead of the Yukon winter for nearly twelve weeks and, amazingly, walked out of the ordeal intact. 81 Days Below Zero recounts, for the first time, the full story of Crane's remarkable saga. In a drama of staggering resolve with moments of phenomenal luck, Crane learned to survive in the Yukon's unforgiving landscape. His is a tale of the human capacity to endure extreme conditions and intense loneliness-and emerge stronger than before. "--
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Military Air pilots, Military Aeronautics, Airplane crash survival, B-24 (Bomber), American Aerial operations, Wilderness survival, World War, 1939-1945, Accidents, Biography, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, HISTORY / Military / World War II, nyt:expeditions-disasters-and-adventures=2015-08-09, New York Times bestseller, Air pilots, biography, World war, 1939-1945, aerial operations, american, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc., Alaska, biography, Aeronautics, militaryPeople
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81 days below zero: the incredible survival story of a World War II pilot in Alaska's frozen wilderness
2015
in English
- First Da Capo Press edition 2015.
0306823284 9780306823282
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-226) and index.
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