In the second edition (2021) of Phantom Father: A Daughter’s Quest for Elegy, Dr. Sharon Estill Taylor weaves the story of her decades long-search for and recovery of her fighter pilot father’s lost WWII crash site. She is aided in her search by her father’s squadron mates, a brilliant German air historian, the US government, and Spiegel TV. She calls upon every known and unknown resource to discover her father’s fate when he was the last man killed from his squadron on Friday April 13, 1945. With honesty, suspense, and candor, Taylor writes about her journey from the impossible to the possible, from the unknown to discovery and resolution, in this highly readable story.

The first edition(2016) coincided with Dr. Taylor’s presentation at the International WWII Conference at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans, November 17-19, 2016