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Pontifications: Book Review, “Tigers in the Sea”

May 17, 2021, © Leeham News: Tiger in the Sea is a new book about the 1962 ditching of a Flying Tigers Lockheed Constellation L-1049H in the stormy North Atlantic. It was, in modern-day comparisons, the US Airways… Read More

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 Posted on May 17, 2021 by Scott Hamilton

 Book Review, Pontifications

     Chesley Sullenberger, Eric Lindner, Ernest Gann, Flying Tigers, Flying Tigers 923, High and the Mighty, John Wayne, Robert Stack, Tiger in the Sea, TOPAC, US Airways 1549

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