By sheer coincidence, got home last night and Mrs.Nopax had found me 'The Lost squadron' in the local library. Just starting on it now, and it is a truly amazing story.
Couple of snippets; the recovery project was partly sponsored by 'Winston' (the cigarette people) as it appealed to their outdoor man image (bit like Marlboro man) and a fair bit of the flying about on exploration over the snow/ice caps used single-engined Cessna 185's with no de-icing capability. Wonderful photo of two guys rocking the wings of the aircraft to free it from the ice so it could take off.
In short - quite fascinating!