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Cold Sun : The Search for World War II Airmen Lost in a Tibetan Glacier
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Title
Cold Sun : The Search for World War II Airmen Lost in a Tibetan Glacier / William H. Jordan ; foreword by Mac Thornberry.
ISBN
9781648430923
9781648430916
Edition
First edition.
Publication
College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2023]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2023
Copyright Notice Date
©[2023]
Physical Description
1 online resource (352 pages) : illustrations , maps
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Summary
" In January 1944, a US Army Air Corps transport, en route to its home base in India, crashed into a snowfield in Tibet, killing all crew members. Because of the remote location and fierce winter weather, the aircraft was covered by heavy snowfall. The snowfield glaciated, completely hiding the aircraft until its accidental discovery by a Tibetan hunter in 1993. A nearby Chinese army garrison launched an immediate reconnaissance into the crash site and brought out remnants of the airplane and remains of the crew. They then notified the American Embassy in Beijing. Then-Colonel William H. Jordan, commander of the US Army Central Identification Laboratory in Hawaii, was assigned to investigate the crash site and to recover, identify, and repatriate the remains of the fallen US servicemen. Cold Sun: The Search for World War II Airmen Lost in a Tibetan Glacier is Jordan's recounting of the events surrounding the recovery, including the final, solemn duty of officially informing the lost crewmen's family members-by this time in middle age or older-of the fate of their loved ones. He weaves the mission of the aircraft and crew's fate through the prism of America's history of identifying and recovering their fallen warriors, the efforts over the years, and technological leaps needed to finally accomplish this grim, necessary mission. Inspiring and informative, based in the personal reflections of Jordan and the others involved, Cold Sun tells the gripping story of a tragic loss, a harrowing recovery effort, and the human efforts involved. "-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2023.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 26, 2023
Series
Williams-Ford Texas A&M University military history series
Contents
Foreword / the Honorable Mac Thornberry
Preface: The Hunter, September 1993 / William H. Jordan
Reflections: A Retrospective Overview
Legacy: "Bring My Boy Home"
Foreign Shores, Global Conflict
On Their Shields
Known but to God
"Ain't Our Fight"
Operators
The Last "Peaceful" Season: A Pilot's Odyssey
Crucible: Postwar Vietnam and the United States
A Bloody Shirt
Politics, Policy, and Follies
Maturation: Antagonists
Over the "Rockpile"
Breaking a Logjam: Desert Storm and the Senate Select Committee
CILHI: Search, Recover, Identify
The Third Incarnation of the JPRC
the JTF-FA
Closed States, Closed Gates, and Deadly Pyres
A Nation Ascendant, a Nation Eclipsed
Contingent: Chinese Winter
"Reckon That's about the Size of It, I Guess"
Futile Hope, Quagmired Nation
A Jorhat Crew's Cautionary Tale
Refining of the Pilots
Resurrection: Maelstrom
Rough Road, Rough Garrison
Glaciers and Snowfields
Bringing Them to Life
Sacred Searchers
Epilogue: "This Is a Holy Place"
Acknowledgments
Notes.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Military history.
History.
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