Hunting Warbirds: The Obsessive Quest For the Lost Aircraft of World War II
Hunting Warbirds: The Obsessive Quest For the Lost Aircraft of World War II
Ballantine Books | 2001 | ISBN: 0345436172 | English | 250 pages | PDF | 77.3 MB
“Winged treasure” they call them–the lost remains of the great American fighter planes and bombers that won World War II. Hellcats and Superfortresses, Corsairs and Dauntlesses. Produced by the thousands at the height of the war, and then cast off as scrap in the decades that followed, these warbirds are now worth literally anything–fortunes, families, even lives–to the people who search for them. Like many men, writer Carl Hoffman was bitten by the warbird bug as a child. But he never imagined that he would one day witness and participate in a heroic adventure himself–the most audacious warbird rescue attempt of all time.