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-- Thirteen hours2014., Twelve Call No: MEMOIR Edition: 1st ed.: September Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Six members of the American security operators working at the US State Department Special Mission Compound in Benghazi, Libya, describe in their own words what happened on the night of September 11, 2012 when the compound was attacked.
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[2013], Harper Call No: WWII Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In November 1942, a U.S. cargo plane crashed into the Greenland ice cap, the B-17 sent on the search-and-rescue mission got caught in a storm and also crashed, miraculously all nine men aboard survived. A second rescue operation was launched, but the plane, the Grumman Duck, flew into a storm and vanished. The survivors of the B-17 spent 148 days fighting to stay alive while waiting for rescue by famed explorer Bernt Balchen. Then in 2012 the U.S. Coast Guard and North South Polar mount an expedition to solve the mystery of the vanished plane and recover the remains of the lost plane's crew.
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Ã2013., Harper Perennial Call No: B Zuckoff Edition: First Harper Perennial edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Details the efforts of a crashed B-17 to survive in Greenland during the winter of 1942 and 1943. Also chronicles the author's expedition to the region in 2012 to help recover the remains of the crewmen who did not survive.
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c2011., Harper Call No: Warfare Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Provides an account of the crash of a transport plane carrying twenty-four American servicemen and WACs on May 13, 1945, during a sightseeing trip over the Shangri-La Valley in the mountains of Dutch New Guinea, tells how survivors Margaret Hastings, John McCollom, and Kenneth Decker, injured and grieving, braved man-eating headhunters and enemy Japanese troops to find refuge with a primitive tribe which had never seen white people, and discusses their daring rescue.
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2005., Random House Call No: 364.16 ZUC Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Recounts the true story of Charles Ponzi's 1920 scam in which he made millions of dollars through bogus investments and false promises.
