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A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War II
Harcourt
October 2007
On Sale: October 8, 2007
304 pages
ISBN: 0151014345
EAN: 9780151014347
Hardcover
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November 1944: Army airmen set out in a B-24 bomber on what
should have been an easy mission off the Borneo coast.
Instead they found themselves unexpectedly facing a Japanese
fleet—and were shot down. When they cut themselves loose
from their parachutes, they were scattered across the
island’s mountainous interior. Then a group of
loincloth-wearing natives silently materialized out of the
jungle. Would these Dayak tribesmen turn the starving airmen
over to the hostile Japanese occupiers? Or would the Dayaks
risk vicious reprisals to get the airmen safely home? The
tribal leaders’ unprecedented decision led to a desperate
game of hide-and-seek, and, ultimately, the return of a
long-renounced ritual: head-hunting. A cinematic survival story that features a bamboo airstrip
built on a rice paddy, a mad British major, and a
blowpipe-wielding army that helped destroy one of the last
Japanese strongholds, The Airmen and the Headhunters is a
gripping, you-are-there journey into the remote world and
forgotten heroism of the Dayaks.
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