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...mountains. To help in his search, he got hold of the classified flight plan of the lost B-24 and the position reports that it had radioed back. The pilot's last call, Hester learned, indicated that the plane was then flying somewhere near the town of Lone Pine, twelve miles east of Mount Whitney. In the Lone Pine area he began a search that continued for 14 years, halting only when the winter snows blocked the trails, resuming again in the spring...
...away, Hester set up a marble urn in his backyard in Los Angeles as a memorial to Bob and his fellow crewmen. "The war will never end for us," he wrote to the parents of the lost B-24's pilot. He bought a parcel of land near Lone Pine, built a house there. "Now I won't have to go so far to look for Bob," he said...
Last week, in the high reaches of the Sierra Nevada's Le Conte Canyon, 57 air miles from Lone Pine, two geologists and a park ranger came upon pieces of wreckage wedged among rocks near the outlet of an unnamed lake. In the waters of the lake, searchers found a shattered B-24 and all that remained of Bob Hester and his comrades...
...ancient steam-driven train from Palermo chugged out of the Sicilian hill town of Zucco-Montelepre one night last week, four masked men emerged from the shadows and hopped aboard the mail car. Guns drawn, they warned the lone mail clerk not to move or they would kill him. Ripping open mail sacks, they collected $19,000, then jumped from the train, leaving the clerk trussed up on the floor. The stationmaster back in Zucco-Montelepre's rickety railroad station, which is eerily lit by flickering oil lamps, allowed as how he had seen the men before the holdup...
...bespectacled manufacturer of pocket maps. The wager made, War Hero H. G. ("Blondie") Hasler and Mapmaker Francis Chichester approached the prestigious Royal Western Yacht Club for official sanction. Their casual proposition: to sail the perilous Atlantic, from Plymouth to New York, into the teeth of the prevailing westerlies -one lone man to a boat...