We Thought We Heard the Angels Sing
by Whittaker, James C.
Published by : E. P. Dutton & company, Inc. (New York) Physical details: 139 p| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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When Captain Eddie Rickenbacker's big Liberator bomber crashed in the waters of the south Pacific in 1942, little hope was held out for her crew. But the men survived three weeks on the open ocean in one of WWII's largest campaign theaters.; "14 hours SSW Oahu. May have overshot island. Hour's fuel." Thousands of Americans laid aside their newspapers on Oct. 22, 1942, and abandoned hope for Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker and his seven companions after reading this last message, radioed from their Flying Fortress on the afternoon of Oct. 21. Practically none of those who that day resigned themselves to Rickenbacker's death could grasp or visualize the vastness and the empty loneliness of the ocean into which he had disappeared.
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