TY  - BOOK
AU  - Murphy,Brian
TI  - 81 Days Below Zero: The Incredible Survival Story of a World War II Pilot in Alaska's Frozen Wilderness 
SN  - 9780306823282 (hardback)
AV  - D790.2 .M87 2015
U1  - 940.54/4973092 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Boston, MA
PB  - Da Capo Press
KW  - Crane, Leon,
KW  - Air pilots, Military
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Aerial operations, American
KW  - Airplane crash survival
KW  - Alaska
KW  - Wilderness survival
KW  - B-24 (Bomber)
KW  - Accidents
KW  - Aeronautics, Military
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY / Military / World War II
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska's Ladd Field on a test flight. Only one ever returned: Leon Crane, a city kid from Philadelphia with little more than a parachute on his back when he bailed from his B-24 Liberator before it crashed into the Arctic. Alone in subzero temperatures, Crane managed to stay alive in the dead of the Yukon winter for nearly twelve weeks and, amazingly, walked out of the ordeal intact.  81 Days Below Zero recounts, for the first time, the full story of Crane's remarkable saga. In a drama of staggering resolve with moments of phenomenal luck, Crane learned to survive in the Yukon's unforgiving landscape. His is a tale of the human capacity to endure extreme conditions and intense loneliness-and emerge stronger than before. "--
ER  -