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27 lip 2018 · Over the decades, the ever-shifting ice sheets of Greenland buried the aircraft, known as the Lost Squadron, under between 250 and 300 feet of ice. Fifty years later, in 1992, one of the P-38s...
Around 3 a.m. on July 15, 1942, two B-17 bomber planes and six P-38 fighters departed Greenland, unaware that they would soon find themselves entrenched in one of Bolero’s most notorious ...
25 sie 2018 · A World War II airplane that was lost in Greenland decades ago has been found deep beneath glacial ice. The warplane was part of the so-called Lost Squadron, and was first spotted by an...
Glacier Girl is a Lockheed P-38F Lightning, World War II fighter plane, 41-7630, c/n 222-5757, restored to flying condition after being buried beneath the Greenland ice sheet for over 50 years. Glacier Girl was part of the Lost Squadron.
16 kwi 2024 · A group utilized a drone with ground-penetrating radar to find a Lockheed P-38 Lightning, part of the WWII "Lost Squadron," under ice in Greenland. This discovery may lead to finding a Grumman J2F-4 Duck lost during a rescue mission in 1942, aiming to recover the remains of the crew.
30 lip 2018 · Six P-38s and two B-17s took off from a secret Army base in Greenland headed to an airfield in England to join the fight against Germany but didn’t get very far. The squadron encountered a massive blizzard en route and was unable to get to their destination as they were flying blind.
7 sie 2018 · A nonprofit group searching for vintage aircraft in Greenland has reported they found the site of a P-38 wreck from the Lost Squadron from World War II, buried about 340 feet deep in glacial ice. Arctic Hot Point Solutions surveyed the area using new ground-penetrating radar mounted on drones.
