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Hunting warbirds : the obsessive quest for the lost aircraft of World War II Cover Image Book Book

Hunting warbirds : the obsessive quest for the lost aircraft of World War II

Hoffman, Carl 1960- (Author).

Summary: The tale of "two intense fanatics, legendary test pilot Darryl Grenamer and starry-eyed salvage wizard Gary Larkins, [who] hatched the insane idea of launching an expedition to Greenland to find the Kee Bird," a B-29 Superfortress which wrecked in 1947 on a lake of ice.

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  • ISBN: 0345436172
  • ISBN: 9780345436177
  • Physical Description: print
    x, 245 p. : ill ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, 2001.

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note: Introduction: Freeze-dried memories -- Today's the day -- Last flight of the Kee Bird -- Superfort on ice -- Warbird fever -- First come, first served -- Laboratory is open -- Living the fantasy -- Bear by the tail -- Cry uncle -- Fire and ice -- Smoke -- Precious metal -- Peculiar passion -- Sooner -- Later -- Last good machines -- Return of the Kee Bird.

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Subject: Kee Bird (Airplane)
Airplanes, Military Collectors and collecting
World War, 1939-1945 Aerial operations
Excavations (Archaeology)
B 29
Notlandung
Rekonstruktion
Start
Überführung
Grönland
USA

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Athens Regional Library System:
      Athens-Clarke County Library 		NONFIC 623.746 HOFFMAN ( Send Text)
 31001000078221 NONFICTION Available
Catoosa County Library System:
      Catoosa County Library 		623.7 HOFFMAN, CARL ( Send Text)
 31687001685103 NONFIC Available
Conyers-Rockdale Library System:
      Nancy Guinn Memorial Library 		623.746 HOF ( Send Text)
 31015000930983 ADULT Available
Flint River Regional Library System:
      Fayette County Public Library 		623.707 HOF LEASE ( Send Text)
 18210000000526 ADULT Checked out
Lee County Public Library:
      Leesburg Branch 		623.7 HOF ( Send Text)
 31032005280561 ADULT Available
Oconee Regional Library System:
      Laurens County Library 		623.746 HOFF ( Send Text)
 681191001256585 NONFIC Available

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