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.
Genres
- 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, history
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