Norman S. Leach
Teoksen Passchendaele: Canada's Triumph and Tragedy on the Fields of Flanders tekijä
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Norman S. Leach is a historian, award-winning freelance writer, professional speaker, and adventurer with five books on Canadian military history to his credit, Including Passchendaele and Broken Arrow. He lives in Calgary.
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Were we at war with the US? No, it was a mystery for years what had happened to the flight of this huge plane. How could any of the debris end up there? For an estimate of size, the tail alone was the equivalent of a five-story building and to get it in and out of the hangar, or even sometimes for take-off, the nose had to be lifted...in the hangar so the tail could dip down enough to get out, and on the tarmac to get enough speed for lift, because it was carrying so much weight, the weight of the very heavy atomic bomb, a very big bomb, "Fat Boy". Maybe not a complete one, but the equivalent weight and position. This was in the time of the "Cold War". These facts we may never have known if Mr. Leach had not written this book. The crash discovery was made 40 years after the event, but where was the bomb? Did it explode as a "dirty bomb"?
Because we had moved to Smithers, BC after the discovery of this crash site, it really intrigued us. It took so many years to be discovered, but that's not surprising because it was totally in the opposite direction than it should have been. The good news is that several of the crew survived the terrible weather they had parachuted into on Princess Royal Island.
This book is exceptionally well-written, Norman S. Leach wrote this with a passion and a lot of research and it immediately becomes a great non-fiction search and recovery, the product of an amazing piece of history between the flight from a frozen Alaska night, Valentine's Day, 1950 and during the years of the "Cold War".… (lisätietoja)