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The Airmen and the Headhunters (Audio MP3-CD) (Unabridged)
The Airmen and the Headhunters - Audio MP3-CD - Unabridged Author:Judith M. Heimann, Susan Ericksen (Narrator) Subtitle: A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War II — 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. — Audio Review: — Several American airmen cras... more »h into the jungles of Borneo during WWII. The survivors perils include leeches, starvation, infections, snakes, and the Japanese. Susan Ericksens monumental task is to pronounce the hundreds of Indonesian names, objects, and places. Although few who hear the narration would ever know whether shes correct, they will notice she is consistent, fluent, and distinct. Having a woman narrate a story all about men puts Ericksen at no disadvantage--as she shows by singing the fliers bawdy songs with gusto. The natives helped the Americans because their head-hunting had been ended by the Dutch Christian missionaries years before. The servicemen werent captives of the aboriginals, but rather students of their foreign culture, diet, and language. -- AudioFile
8 sound discs (9 hr.)
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