![]() ![]() Moving forward to today, he recounts the efforts of the Coast Guard and North South Polar Inc. ![]() Mitchell Zuckoff takes the reader deep into the most hostile environment on earth, through hurricane-force winds, vicious blizzards, and subzero temperatures. ![]() But after picking up one man, the Grumman Duck amphibious plane flew into a severe storm and vanished.įrozen in Time tells the story of these crashes and the fate of the survivors, bringing vividly to life their battle to endure 148 days of the brutal Arctic winter, until an expedition headed by famed Arctic explorer Bernt Balchen brought them to safety. Miraculously, all nine men on board survived, and the US military launched a daring rescue operation. Four days later, the B-17 assigned to the search-and-rescue mission became lost in a blinding storm and also crashed. On November 5, 1942, a US cargo plane slammed into the Greenland Ice Cap. A gripping true story of survival, bravery, and honor in the vast Arctic wilderness during World War II, from Mitchell Zuckoff, the author of New York Times bestseller Lost in Shangri-La. ![]()
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