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  on Duck Hunt mission, 227, 249, 267, 269, 308

  Turner, Kenneth “Pappy,” 212, 341

  at Bluie East Two, 184, 210–11

  and communications, 214, 216, 236–37, 239

  death of, 328

  Distinguished Flying Cross awarded to, 328

  and Duck location, 152, 153, 176, 191, 194, 195

  and rescue missions, 232, 261, 264, 287, 291

  and supply drops, 173–74, 180, 184–85, 186, 208, 210–12, 213–16, 238, 258–60, 284, 286

  UFOs (unidentified frozen objects), 299

  United States:

  entry into World War II, 16–17

  treaty with Norway, 117

  University of Kansas, CReSIS, 194

  Vaughan, Norman, 100–101

  Wade, Jimmie, 204–6, 341

  Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 235

  warbirds, collectors of, 97–98

  War Department, U.S., 209

  warplanes, aluminum production for, 15

  Waters, Nathan, 215, 289, 328, 338

  Weaver, Arthur, 341

  and crash landing, 80

  and ferrying mission, 79

  and frozen feet, 85

  and hypothermia, 88–89

  on Northland, 124

  rescue of, 83–90, 89, 114, 127

  and survival, 80–84, 89–90

  traveling with dinghy, 82–86

  Wedel, Clarence, 169–70, 169, 341

  and crash, 54

  fall in crevasse, 177–79, 184, 212, 214, 274

  Legion of Merit awarded to, 178

  loss of, 297, 322, 331–32

  mechanical repairs by, 109–10, 111, 112, 172–73, 179

  and rescue, 148

  and search for C-53, 33, 37

  and self-rescue motorsled attempt, 175–77

  and survival, 112, 155, 168, 172

  Wedel, Helen, 170, 331

  Wimsatt, Robert, 118, 207–9, 341

  Women’s Army Corps, and rescue mission, 187

  World War II:

  aircraft lost in, 40

  B-17s in, 30–32

  Battle of the Atlantic, 208

  blitzkrieg in, 14

  and Coast Guard, 15, 93

  and cryolite mine, 14–16

  German surrender in, 318

  Greenland in, 14–18, 40

  and military personnel unaccounted for, 44, 97

  news censored in, 188, 318

  and overseas military gravesites, 97

  Pearl Harbor attack in, 17

  in Scandinavia, 117, 123

  and Short Snorters, 108

  and souvenir hunters, 96–98, 201

  U.S. entry into, 16–17

  U.S. neutrality in, 16

  Yates, Erma Ray, 106

  Zuckoff, Mitchell, 312, 335

  About the Author

  MITCHELL ZUCKOFF is the author of Lost in Shangri-La, a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Winship/PEN New England Award. His previous books include Robert Altman: The Oral Biography and Ponzi’s Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend. He has written for national and regional publications and is a former special projects reporter for the Boston Globe, where he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for investigative reporting. He is a professor of journalism at Boston University and lives outside Boston.

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  Also by Mitchell Zuckoff

  Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II

  Robert Altman: The Oral Biography

  Ponzi’s Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend

  Judgment Ridge: The True Story Behind the Dartmouth Murders (with Dick Lehr)

  Choosing Naia: A Family’s Journey

  Credits

  Cover design by Richard Ljoenes

  Cover photographs: U.S. Coast Guard photograph (airplane); courtesy of Carol Sue Spencer Podraza (crevasse); David Rumsey Map Collection, www.davidrumsey.com (map)

  Maps designed by Springer Cartographics, LLC

  Copyright

  FROZEN IN TIME. Copyright © 2013 by Mitchell Zuckoff. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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