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- On November 5, 1942, an American C-53 cargo plane on a routine mission in World War II crashed into a glacier in Greenland. Incredibly, all five men aboard survived. Four days later, a B-17 bomber searching for the C-53 also went down in a blinding storm, leaving nine more men stranded in the Arctic.
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Apr 16, 2024 · Key Takeaways. 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.
Jul 27, 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...
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Aug 28, 2018 · A World War II plane — part of what’s known as “the Lost Squadron,” which crash landed on Greenland ’s ice caps in 1942 — is lost no more. On July 15, 1942, two B-17 bomber planes and six P-38 fighters left Greenland en route to Great Britain.
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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.
Aug 25, 2018 · Searchers have located the wreck of a P-38 Lightning fighter aircraft buried deep within a glacier in Greenland, more than 70 years after a lost squadron of U.S. warplanes crash-landed on the ice there during World War II.
