“[Gary
Collins is] one of the region’s better storytellers; he has a journalist’s eye
for detail, his writing is crisp and lean.”
Atlantic Books Today
Where
Eagles Lie Fallen is celebrated master storyteller
Gary Collins’s solemn tribute to the American servicemen and servicewomen who
lost their lives aboard Arrow Air Flight 1285 when it crashed in Gander,
Newfoundland, on December 12, 1985.This is a story of a tremendous loss of life,
of the 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. military – the world-renowned
“Screaming Eagles.” Eyewitnesses to the tragedy and the surviving loved ones of
the lost American soldiers reveal for the first time the profound effect this
event had on them, and how it still affects them today.
Within
these pages you will meet “Buckeye” Brady, “Keybird” Kee, Michael Shayne “Eliot”
Stack, “Ziggy” Ziegler, “Jenny” Word, and Sergeant Christine M. McCleery,
American servicemen and servicewomen lost aboard Arrow Air Flight 1285.
Among
those who assisted Gary Collins in the reconstruction of that fateful day are
Robyn Stack, mother of Michael Shayne “Eliot” Stack, Gander Deputy Mayor Sandra
Kelly, Air Traffic Controller Glenn Blandford, Mayor Doug Sheppard, and Gander
resident Pat Kane.
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