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SAVAGE WILDERNESS - the epic outback search for the crew of Little Eva
Barry Ralph
Published by UQP
ISBN 0-7022-3443-5


In the early hours of 2 December 1942 an American B24 Liberator Little Eva - returning from a mission over New Guinea -.was thrown off course by a violent storm. Running out of fuel, and with no fix on their position, the crew had no option but to bail out. So began one of the longest and most arduous searches ever mounted in the Australian outback.

although two young airmen walked out of the wilderness, four were not so lucky .Missing for months, they ventured northwest and ended up stranded on the desolate shores of Gulf of Carpentaria, barely surviving on a diet of berries and reptiles. This tragic story is a moving account of human endurance. it recounts in authentic detail the fateful circumstances of Little Eva's last mission from a remote US air base in Far North Queensland and follows the dedicated searchers and skilled black trackers who risked their lives trying to save the lost crewmen.The planes crew thought they were on the east coast near Cooktown. Barry Ralph has researched the epic outback search for the crew of 'Little Eva'. Older readers in North Queensland will have known some of the searchers. Every reader will feel they knew the desperate Americans, one of who was found four months after the crash.