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4/4: N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia, by Mark Piesing

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🗓️ 17 January 2023

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4/4: N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia, by Mark Piesing

https://www.amazon.com/N-4-Down-Arctic-Airship-Italia/dp/0062851527

Triumphantly returning from the North Pole on May 24, 1928, the world-famous exploring airship Italia—code-named N-4—was struck by a terrible storm and crashed somewhere over the Arctic ice, triggering the largest polar rescue mission in history. Helping lead the search was the famed Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, the poles’ greatest explorer, who himself soon went missing in the frozen wastes. Amundsen’s body has never been found, the last victim of one of the Arctic’s most enduring mysteries .

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The community is created by the communist regime and the Soviet Union, admired by the

1:02.2

democracies and capitalist states of Calvin Coolidge in the United States. However, you've

1:09.0

got to find them. The Crasin set sail, the city of Milano, captain by Ramana, captain

1:14.5

Ramanya, doesn't set sail. Pause is, wants to know at checking with Rome. However, the

1:21.2

one we want to concentrate on is Amanson. We have to finish this sub-not. Amanson hears

1:27.3

of the crash. Reese Erlarson, his right-hand man, ears of the crash. What do they think?

1:34.4

What do they do, Mark? Well, the official narrative, I guess, is that having dinner in Oslo

1:43.7

with a whole bunch of other explorers to celebrate Hubert Wilkins' achievement of flying from

1:51.5

Alaska to his fellow. I'm almost the wrong way from where everyone else is trying to

1:55.2

fly. In April, I know how many dinners celebrate this amazing achievement. It's like a Hollywood

2:03.4

movie. The messenger arrives, the door swings open and the news is that the Italian has

2:08.6

disappeared. No one's heard from her. When they realise there's a crisis, Amanson, the

2:16.8

old room apparently turned to Amanson and see what he would do. They knew that of his

2:20.9

animosity to nobody. I want to instill that when I will go. So you have this great moment

2:27.4

of Dixlora's code, isn't he? Even though he hates this guy, he's going to go and he's

2:35.7

going to rescue him. But things turn out to be slightly more complicated than that.

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