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In nov 1944, an enormous American bomber carrying eleven men vanished within the Pacific islands of Palau, giving a trail of mysteries. Relating to mission information from the Military Air Pushes, the airplane crashed in shallow water - but when investigators went to think it is, the wreckage wasn't there. Witnesses found the staff parachute to safety, the airmen were never seen again. Some of their family members whispered that that they had returned to the United States in secret and lived in hiding. But they never described why. For sixty years, the U.S. federal government, the kids of the missing airmen, and a maverick team of experts and scuba divers looked the islands for clues. They trolled water with side-scan sonar, conducted grid queries on the seafloor, crawled through thickets of mangrove and poison trees and shrubs, and flew over the islands in small planes to capture infrared picture taking. With every clue they found, the puzzle only deepened. Now, in a spellbinding narrative, Wil S. Hylton weaves alongside one another the true storyline of the missing men, their last mission, the young families they left out, and the real reason their disappearance remained shrouded in secrecy for so long. This is a tale of love, damage, sacrifice, and beliefs - of the undying expectation among the groups of the missing, and the relentless willpower of experts, explorers, archaeologists, and deep-sea divers to resolve one of the long lasting mysteries of World Conflict II.
