LEADER 06330cam 22007698i 4500001 on1322051688 003 OCoLC 005 20230425160953.0 008 220509s2023 txu b 001 0deng 010 2022021563 020 9781648430916 020 1648430910 020 |z9781648430923 |q(ebook) 035 (Sirsi) o1322051688 035 (OCoLC)1322051688 040 TXA/DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dBDX |dOCLCF |dUKMGB |dUtOrBLW 042 pcc 043 a-cc-tsn-us--- 050 00 D810.D4 |bJ67 2023 082 00 940.54/8 |223/eng/20220601 084 HIS027140HIS027100 |2bisacsh 100 1 Jordan, William H., |eauthor. |=^A1454517 245 10 Cold sun : |bthe search for World War II airmen lost in a Tibetan glacier / |cWilliam H. Jordan ; foreword by Mac Thornberry. 250 First edition. 263 2301 264 1 College Station : |bTexas A&M University Press, |c[2023] 300 352 pages.352 pages : |billustrations ; |c26 cm. 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 490 1 Williams-Ford Texas A&M University military history series 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 Foreword / the Honorable Mac Thornberry -- Preface: The Hunter, September 1993 / William H. Jordan -- Reflections: A Retrospective Overview -- Legacy: "Bring My Boy Home" -- Foreign Shores, Global Conflict -- On Their Shields -- Known but to God -- "Ain't Our Fight" -- Operators -- The Last "Peaceful" Season: A Pilot's Odyssey -- Crucible: Postwar Vietnam and the United States -- A Bloody Shirt -- Politics, Policy, and Follies -- Maturation: Antagonists -- Over the "Rockpile" -- Breaking a Logjam: Desert Storm and the Senate Select Committee -- CILHI: Search, Recover, Identify -- The Third Incarnation of the JPRC -- the JTF-FA -- Closed States, Closed Gates, and Deadly Pyres -- A Nation Ascendant, a Nation Eclipsed -- Contingent: Chinese Winter -- "Reckon That's about the Size of It, I Guess" -- Futile Hope, Quagmired Nation -- A Jorhat Crew's Cautionary Tale -- Refining of the Pilots -- Resurrection: Maelstrom -- Rough Road, Rough Garrison -- Glaciers and Snowfields -- Bringing Them to Life -- Sacred Searchers -- Epilogue: "This Is a Holy Place" -- Acknowledgments -- Notes. 520 " In January 1944, a US Army Air Corps transport, en route to its home base in India, crashed into a snowfield in Tibet, killing all crew members. Because of the remote location and fierce winter weather, the aircraft was covered by heavy snowfall. The snowfield glaciated, completely hiding the aircraft until its accidental discovery by a Tibetan hunter in 1993. A nearby Chinese army garrison launched an immediate reconnaissance into the crash site and brought out remnants of the airplane and remains of the crew. They then notified the American Embassy in Beijing. Then-Colonel William H. Jordan, commander of the US Army Central Identification Laboratory in Hawaii, was assigned to investigate the crash site and to recover, identify, and repatriate the remains of the fallen US servicemen. Cold Sun: The Search for World War II Airmen Lost in a Tibetan Glacier is Jordan's recounting of the events surrounding the recovery, including the final, solemn duty of officially informing the lost crewmen's family members-by this time in middle age or older-of the fate of their loved ones. He weaves the mission of the aircraft and crew's fate through the prism of America's history of identifying and recovering their fallen warriors, the efforts over the years, and technological leaps needed to finally accomplish this grim, necessary mission. Inspiring and informative, based in the personal reflections of Jordan and the others involved, Cold Sun tells the gripping story of a tragic loss, a harrowing recovery effort, and the human efforts involved. 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