Other Means Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 Warning - I think it's the first chapter of a book so it doesn't exactly finish. In The Guardian. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmar Bijlsma Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 They crash in the ocean about 200 miles north of Hawaii and then their dinghies get attacked by a twin engined Japanese bomber? I know, 27 days after the crash so the current could take them a great distance, but it still doesn't compute with me. *edit* I should have kept reading. Dunno, could be right. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 There was a similar story of the crew of an Avenger (three men) adrift in a life raft for a month before they were rescued. I think the author's name was Dixon, but I haven't been able to find it on the web. He was one of the guys and it is quite a harrowing tale. I read it some time in the mid-'50s, so it must have been written in the first decade after the war. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieseltaylor Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 and Rickenbacker http://www.homeofheroes.com/wings/part1/8_newwar.html http://www.janeresture.com/rickenbacker/ http://www.amazon.com/Unbroken-World-Survival-Resilience-Redemption/dp/1400064163 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalins Organ Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 3 boys, 50 days at sea...all for a girl...... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeatEtr Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 I read it some time in the mid-'50s... Michael While your at it, can you tell us what it was like to live through The Stone Age? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 While your at it, can you tell us what it was like to live through The Stone Age? Pretty rocky... Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawkmek Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Back in the Stone Age men were boulder and they took it for granite. Ba-dah Bing! The 50's?! I can't remember what I read in the 90's! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalins Organ Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Would that be the 90's BC or AD? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Other Means Posted January 18, 2011 Author Share Posted January 18, 2011 He meant HIS 50's. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dietrich Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Radley Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 I just finished reading "Unbroken", bu Laura Hildebrand. The story of Louis Zampirini. he and another guy were adrift for 47 days before being picked up by the Japanese. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Zamperini 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Other Means Posted January 24, 2011 Author Share Posted January 24, 2011 I just finished reading "Unbroken", bu Laura Hildebrand. The story of Louis Zampirini. he and another guy were adrift for 47 days before being picked up by the Japanese. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Zamperini That's what the OP is about Boo. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Radley Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 See? This is what happens when you don't read the first post in a thread. Let this be a lesson unto you all. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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