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| FINAL FLIGHT is the story of William Gamber, John Melvin Mortenson, Ernest Glenn Munn, and Leo Mustonen. They were a United States Army Air Forces pilot and three aviation cadets lost in Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks on November 18, 1942 during a navigation training mission. | |
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Mendel Glacier Images Please check back later after FINAL FLIGHT has been published. Thank you,
Peter Stekel |
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October 2005, two mountaineers climbing above Mendel Glacier in the High
Sierra found the mummified remains of a man in a WW II uniform, entombed
in the ice. The "Frozen Airman" discovery created a media storm and a
mystery that drew author Peter Stekel to investigate. What did
happen to the four-man crew who perished on a routine navigation training
flight in 1942, 150 miles off-course from its reported destination? Stekel found bad weather, bad luck, and bad timing. Empty graves, botched records, and misguided recovery efforts. Then, in 2007, the unimaginable happened again. Stekel himself discovered a second body in the glacier. Another young man would finally be coming home. FINAL FLIGHT, coming September 2010 from Wilderness Press |
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