Final Flight: The Mystery of a WWII Plane Crash and the Frozen Airmen in the High Sierra (Paperback)

from TallyDi

Summarizes search for truth that grew from the 2005 discovery of a body melting out of Mendel Glacier in Kings Canyon National Park in California. Called the Frozen Airman, he was one of four young men on a World War II training flight that disappeared. In the process of researching the story of ...

from IsolaBlue

Final Flight is a labor of love on the part of author, Peter Stekel, who found a body while hiking in the High Sierra. The body turned out to be that of a military airman who was lost 65 years before. The encounter with the corpse led Stekel to write this book which offers its readers an in-depth...

from TimBazzett

Final Flight is a well-written, informative and thoughtful piece of work. I've always been interested in accounts of World War II events, particularly first-person narratives. This book was only first-person because the writer inserted himself into the search for answers, into trying to solve the...

from mckait

The plane was a Beech AT7 Navigator and it crashed on November 18th, 1942 in Kings Canyon, The High Sierras. It was a navigational training plane. The time was 1942, and WWII was in full swing. Three navigators in training and a pilot were on board. There was a mystery surrounding this crash, and...

from Judgejudy2u

If you are a fan of military history or unsolved mysteries than this is a great book for you. I enjoyed it very much and I am not particularly a fan of either. It was well written and the author, Peter Stekel, did his homework well. I think what surprised me most is that the hikers who found this...