From: David Lesher

You would be interested in "The Thousand-Mile War" (World War Two in
Alaska and the Aleutians") by Brian Garfield.

If that is the book I recall reading a few decades ago, there was
a C-47 that took off backwards.

there are more "I'll be damned!" aviation stories in this book than you can
shake the proverbial stick at. Everybody interested in aviation should do
themselves a favor and read this book.


Chris Mark