The Ice and The Silence

Produced by Jeffrey Alan Redding

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Genre: History
Synopsis: In 1962, a U.S. Navy patrol plane vanished over the Greenland ice cap. Decades later, a determined shipmate fought red tape to recover the twelve lost airmen and finally bring them home.
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The film opens with rare cockpit footage from 1962 as patrol plane LA-9 departs for the ice pack, capturing the final hours of the twelve-man crew before they vanish on Kronborg Glacier. The narrative then shifts to the decades of silence that followed, tracking retired Secret Service agent Robert Pettway's relentless fight against bureaucratic red tape to launch a recovery mission, locate the crash site, and finally bring his fallen shipmates home.
Stage: in post-production
Running time: 106 minutes