Missing in the Himalayas: An MIA Team's High-Risk Mission in Tibet (Signed)

Constein, Dr. Carl Frey

ISBN 10: 1420836943 / ISBN 13: 9781420836943

Published by AuthorHouse, 2005

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[Inscribed, signed by author on FEP] Softcover. Minimal shelf wear. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. 190 pages, 23 cm. *Autographed by author.*.

Seller Inventory # 2206210042

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Missing in the Himalayas: An MIA Team's High-Risk Mission in Tibet (Signed)
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1420836943
• ISBN 13: 9781420836943
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 12 ounces
• Signed: Signed
• Seller catalogs:
  • Military History

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Synopsis

Returning to India from China on November 3, 1944, WWII C-46 #996 calls an ominous ?Mayday.? The author, himself a Hump pilot on a mission that horrendous night, recalls the violent storms. Nothing more is heard from cargo plane 996. Sixty years later, a Tibetan hunter wanders onto the crashed plane at 14,000 feet. An MIA Team based in Hawaii is dispatched to Tibet to excavate and search the crash site. Missing in the Himalayas connects the dots between the C-46?s crash in 1944 and its excavation in 2004, between a gallant aircrew in WWII and a dedicated MIA recovery team today. The book narrates the high-risk adventure in detail---an anatomy of an MIA mission. Illustrated with dramatic photographs, Missing in the Himalayas is of special interest to pilots and aviation enthusiasts, to mountaineers, and to WWII history buffs. Aficionados of the CBI theater and the Hump will find the book of particular interest.

About the Author

Carl Frey Constein was born in the eastern Pennsylvania town of Fleetwood in 1920. After graduating from college, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps as an Aviation Cadet. He received his pilot?s wings and 2nd Lieutenant?s Commission at Waco, Texas, in 1944 and was sent to India to fly supplies and materiel to China across the Himalayan Hump. For his 96 C-46 missions, he was awarded two Air Medals and the Distinguished Flying Cross. After the war Constein earned a doctorate at Temple University in English and Educational Administration. He has been an English teacher, director of curriculum, superintendent of schools, and education writer. He is the author of six books.Dr. Constein lives in Wernersville, near Reading, PA. He lectures frequently about the WWII Hump and the China-Burma-India theater of operations.