Lost Eagles: One Man's Mission to Find Missing Airmen in Two World Wars

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LOST EAGLES i]Zjc^kZgh^ind[b^X]^\VcegZhh VccVgWdg LOST EAGLES One Man’s Mission to Find Missing Airmen in Two World Wars BLAINE PARDOE Copyright © by Blaine Pardoe 2010 All rights reserved Published in the United States of America by The University of Michigan Press Manufactured in the United States of America c Printed on acid-free paper 2013 2012 2011 2010 4 3 2 1 No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, or otherwise, without the written permission of the publisher. A CIP catalog record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Pardoe, Blaine, 1962– Lost eagles : one man’s mission to find missing airmen in two world wars / Blaine Pardoe. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-472-11752-9 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. World War, 1914–1918—Missing in action—Identification. 2. World War, 1939–1945—Missing in action—Identification. 3. World War, 1914–1918—Aerial operations, American. 4. World War, 1939– 1945—Aerial operations, American. 5. Airmen—United States— History—20th century. 6. Zinn, Frederick Wilhelm, 1892–1960. I. Title. DS639.M56P37 2010 940.4'8—dc22 2010030239 ISBN13: 978-0-472-02787-3 (electronic) Jacket photo: Frederick Zinn's sopwith aircraft, which crashed during World War I. National Museum of the United States Air Force Archives. This book is dedicated to all of the men and women that are yet to be recovered and returned home with honor. Each Memorial Day, we honor not just those buried under white crosses and the Star of David but those that remain on the far-›ung battle‹elds where Americans disappeared into the mists of history—missing in action. While not marked with a grave, they are not forgotten. It would be easy to dedicate this book to Fred Zinn, but he was far too humble in life to accept such a distinction and it would be wrong to do so now. For him, it was about the families of the missing men he hunted for and the men themselves. In keeping with that spirit, in honor of Frederick Zinn, this book commemorates the airmen he recovered and those still awaiting discovery and identi‹cation. This work is especially dedicated to the men detailed in this book. kenyon roper alvin treadwell cyrus gatton roswell fuller lester harter phillip e. hassinger lyman case victor chapman raymond parker william hester emile jack selig jr. john f. merrill howard i. kinne john n. mcelroy ...