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Author(s): Tom Wilber Date: 2024 Format: pdf Language: English ISBN/ASIN: 1501769642   Pages: 264 OCR: Quality: ISBN13:   Uploader: alex21s Upload Date: 10/17/2023 6:30:04 PM       To download click on link in the Links Table below                                                                        Description: Click to see full description In Vanishing Point, award winning journalist and author Tom Wilber pieces together the largely forgotten story of the bomber, Getaway Gertie, and an eclectic group of enthusiasts who have spent years searching for it. At the height of World War II, a B-24 Liberator bomber vanished with its crew while on a training mission over upstate New York. The final hours and ultimate resting place of pilot Keith Ponder and seven other US aviators aboard the plane remain mysteries to this day. The tale is at once a compelling instance of loss on the World War II American home front and a more extensive, largely unreported history. Pondera 21-year-old from rural Mississippiand his crew were tragically unexceptional casualties in the monumental effort to recruit and train an air force en masse to counter the global conquest of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. More than fifteen thousand American airmen and, in some cases, women burned, crashed, or fell to their deaths in stateside training accidents during the wartheir lives and stories shuffled away in piles of Air Force bureaucracy. Read more Links Table     Title Link Password Size (MB) Thank to Inform Admin 3206765 Book https://nitroflare.com/view/0D861E4B0BFE...   0.00 alex21s Tags: B-24 Bomber Crew Front Lost Point Search Vanishing World Title Link Password Size Reason Dead link New format   Those who downloaded this book also downloaded the following books: Comments New comment:

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