Author : Juliet Wills
Release : 2006-08-01
Genre : History
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The Diamond Dakota Mystery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Diamond Dakota Mystery write by Juliet Wills. This book was released on 2006-08-01. The Diamond Dakota Mystery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This extraordinary true tale follows the disappearance of more than 20 million dollars worth of precious diamonds during World War II. In 1942, as the Japanese army advanced on Java, two wealthy businessmen entrusted a Russian aviator, Captain Ivan Smirnoff, with a small, mysteriously-unmarked package, to be delivered to a businessman in Sydney. The plane was attacked during a Japanese air raid and under heavy fire, but Smirnoff miraculously landed the badly damaged plane on an isolated beach on Java's far northwest coast. A few weeks later, Jack Palmer stumbled across the lost package—containing precious diamonds—among the plane's wreckage. Nicknamed "Diamond Jack," Palmer and two others were charged with theft of the diamonds. This true adventure follows the diamonds as they are lost, found, and lost again.