Whittaker, James C.
We Thought We Heard the Angels Sing The complete epic story of the ordeal and rescue of those who were with Eddie Rickenbacker on the plane lost in the Pacific James C. Wittaker; Illustrations Gary Sheahan - New York E. P. Dutton & company, Inc. 1944 - 139 p
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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Rickenbacker, Eddie 1890-1973
Personal narratives, American--1939-1945--Pacific Ocean--Pacific Ocean--Pacific Ocean
940.544 Whi 15
We Thought We Heard the Angels Sing The complete epic story of the ordeal and rescue of those who were with Eddie Rickenbacker on the plane lost in the Pacific James C. Wittaker; Illustrations Gary Sheahan - New York E. P. Dutton & company, Inc. 1944 - 139 p
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.
19246
Rickenbacker, Eddie 1890-1973
Personal narratives, American--1939-1945--Pacific Ocean--Pacific Ocean--Pacific Ocean
940.544 Whi 15