| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (11hr., 30 min.)) : digital. |
| Performer |
Read by Johnny Heller. |
| Summary |
Major George Eyster V comes from a family of military officers dating back to the Revolutionary War. His tour of duty in Iraq, however, left him disillusioned and questioning. Then he accepted a posting to J-PAC, an elite division whose mission is to fulfill the most solemn promise of the military code: bring all fallen soldiers home to the country for which they gave their lives. In 1944 Captain Ryan McCown, a dashing young Marine aviator assigned to the USS Nassau, was shot down over the jungles of Papua, New Guinea. McCown's diaries and letters home provide a powerful portrait of the fears and sacrifices of a very different war--and the pathos of the ultimate cost of duty. Eyster's mission with J-PAC eventually took him and his team deep into the sweltering interior of New Guinea to at last deliver this fallen veteran to his loved ones--while perhaps also recovering something lost in himself. |
| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Repatriation of war dead -- United States.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Missing in action -- Papua New Guinea.
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Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Aerial operations, American.
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Air pilots, Military -- United States -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
Heller, Johnny, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781622310173 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1622310179 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11418210 |
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