"On the Internet,
a dead end is just a fork in the road ..."
Heartbroken and frantic, she wrote letters to everyone she could think of but never got the answers she was looking for. She died years later, still desperate to know.
But we never know what legacies we leave, and unwittingly she had passed along her desire for the truth to her granddaughter. Fifty-six years after Billy vanished, Diana Dale took advantage of the instant-communications miracle of the Internet and discovered a tantalizing clue to her uncle's fate.
A government memo written in 1952 said Billy's ID bracelet and some remains had been found, a fact never revealed to Billy's family. But where? Why? How? The mystery deepened when Dale found that the government had lost the file bearing the answers. Reaching out across cyberspace, she found and enlisted the help of a far-flung network of strangers who dedicated themselves to finding Billy.
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The group's only connection is the Internet, and their story shifts back and forth from the U.S. to
Europe and up and down the remote Alps of northern Italy on a suspenseful,
digital quest for the truth.
The result is a compelling blend of history, mystery, discovery, and loss, as unlikely friendships are forged across cultures and continents.
When charming, handsome Billy Wisner's P-38 fighter plane disappeared over the Italian Alps in 1944, the only
thing the U.S. government could tell his mother was that he was "missing,
presumed killed."
Local Best-Seller
Denver Post
December 21, 2003
New Paperback Non-Fiction
Golden Slipper Press
15 Corona Street
Denver, CO 80218-3803
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Diana Dale has appeared in bookstores across the country, as well as at
the Strategic Air & SpaceMuseum, Omaha, Neb., Museum of Flight, Seattle,
Wash., and Hangar 25 Air Museum, Big Spring, Tex.
