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Award-winning former Boston Globe reporter Mitchell Zuckoff unleashes the exhilarating, untold story of an extraordinary World War II rescue mission, where a plane crash in the South Pacific plunged a trio of U.S. military personnel into the jungle-clad land of New Guinea
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United States, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, Search and rescue operations, World War, 1939-1945, American Aerial operations, Primitive societies, Missing in action, United States. Army Air Forces, Aircraft accidents, New York Times bestseller, nyt:e-book_nonfiction=2011-04-23, Airplane crash survival, nyt:hardcover_political_books=2011-08-27, Survival, American, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924, Aerial Military operations, Armed Forces, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc., World war, 1939-1945, pacific area, World war, 1939-1945, aerial operations, american, United states, army air forces, New guinea, historyPlaces
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Describes the 1945 odyssey of three plane crash survivors in New Guinea who endured a harrowing journey through the jungle to seek help, their encounter with a primitive tribe who had never seen white people, and their eventual rescue by a band of paratroopers.
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