Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II (Hardcover) by Wil S Hylton

from Dogberryjr

Vanished tells the story of a missing B24 bomber and its crew, shot down in the South Pacific during the Second World War. Author Wil Hylton fleshes out the story of the aircrew, their families and the searchers who, decades after the last shot of the war was fired, continue to scour even the mos...

from nancynova

Excellent book. It was believed that 3 B-24 liberator aircraft were shot down over Palau during WWII. But there was scant information in records, the air force was not really part of the WWII official ledgers, and the men were still listed as MIA - is the rosters of the planes were to be believed...

from jamespurcell

Well read, interesting story about one plane and crew of a B 24 lost in the Pacific during WW2. Lots of excellent background information about B 24s, not a pleasant plane to fly or fight, and MIA recovery. The book has two good maps and several pictures used as chapter heading that add to the his...

from SamSattler

Astonishingly, more than 56,000 World War II American troops are still missing. Even more astonishing (at least to me) is that two-thirds of all missing soldiers from the entire last century were lost in World War II's Pacific theater. Now, Wil S. Hylton's Vanished offers new insight into the six...

from susanbeamon

This is one of those non-fiction books that gets started as a personality piece in a popular magazine, and, due to questions from readers, is expanded to include more than the personality. A man takes a vacation and sees parts of WWII planes in the reef. He becomes obsessed with the planes and th...