81 Days Below Zero: The Incredible Survival Story of a World War II Pilot in Alaska's Frozen Wilderness
Da Capo Press, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. Fine i n fine dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 238 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrated with photographs. Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska's Ladd Field on a routine flight to test their refitted their hastily refitted B-24 Liberator. The mission ended ina crash that killed four of the five with only Philadelphia native Leon Crane surviving. Hope for a rescue was remote but Crane was somehow able to survive the sub-zero temperatures and after 12 weeks amazingly walked out of the ordeal intact. This is Clark's remarkable story. Fine / fine. Item #E29957
ISBN: 9780306823282
Price: $14.95