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Glacier Girl
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Posted on 04/20/2009 5:02:02 AM PDT by wolfcreek
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Here's what caught my interest:
"Fifty years later a small group of aviation enthusiasts decided to locate that squadron, who had come to be known as "The Lost Squadron," and to recover one of the lost P-38s. It turned out to be no easy task, as the planes had been buried under 25 stories of ice and drifted over a mile from their original location."
Turns out it snows 50+ ft. every winter and all but about 7 ft. melts in the summer. 268 ft. accumulated since WWII.
Paging ALGORE!
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posted on
04/20/2009 5:02:02 AM PDT
by
wolfcreek
To: SunkenCiv; blam; Quix; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; decimon
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posted on
04/20/2009 5:04:50 AM PDT
by
wolfcreek
("unnamed "right-wing extremist")
To: wolfcreek
That was on the history channel first thing this morning.
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posted on
04/20/2009 5:08:31 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: wolfcreek
I found a pic of Glacier Girl at the 2005 Oshkosh Air Show!
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posted on
04/20/2009 5:13:07 AM PDT
by
Old Sarge
("Remember, remember, the Fourth of November, the Socialist treason and plot...")
To: wolfcreek
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posted on
04/20/2009 5:13:07 AM PDT
by
MAD-AS-HELL
(Hope and Change. Rhetoric embraced by the Insane - Obama, The Chump in Charge)
To: cripplecreek
Thanks for the heads up. I’ll catch it when it gets out to the Pacific Time Zone this AM.
To: Old Sarge
Are those the three girls that were used to melt the ice around the plane?
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posted on
04/20/2009 5:13:55 AM PDT
by
MAD-AS-HELL
(Hope and Change. Rhetoric embraced by the Insane - Obama, The Chump in Charge)
To: MAD-AS-HELL
Ya gotta admire those classic chassis lines...
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posted on
04/20/2009 5:14:41 AM PDT
by
Old Sarge
("Remember, remember, the Fourth of November, the Socialist treason and plot...")
To: MAD-AS-HELL
Nawwww. They’re too hot. One would have done the job just fine.
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posted on
04/20/2009 5:16:08 AM PDT
by
clee1
(We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
To: wolfcreek
Great story and coolio video...thanks for posting.
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posted on
04/20/2009 5:16:55 AM PDT
by
SouthDixie
(We are but angels with one wing, it takes two to fly.)
To: RGSpincich
Actually kind of an interesting story. There were several planes that ended up on the ice and the pilots and crews made a bit of a vacation out of it.
They couldn’t be directly rescued so supplies were dropped to them. Finally a dog sled team reached them and they all walked out together.
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posted on
04/20/2009 5:17:46 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: Old Sarge; cripplecreek; wolfcreek
From a Freeper Canteen back when...
First Flight and landing of the Glacier Girl. Glad they did not need that fire truck :-)
Y'all have a great day out there
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
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posted on
04/20/2009 5:20:01 AM PDT
by
alfa6
To: cripplecreek
Sure was. LOL!
Had to slap ol’ Al in the face with that one.
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posted on
04/20/2009 5:20:04 AM PDT
by
wolfcreek
("unnamed "right-wing extremist")
To: Old Sarge
Those gals would of cause some stir back in the ‘40s.
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posted on
04/20/2009 5:23:04 AM PDT
by
wolfcreek
("unnamed "right-wing extremist")
To: Old Sarge
Where’s the plane in the picture?
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posted on
04/20/2009 5:38:10 AM PDT
by
JRios1968
(The real first rule of Fight Club: don't invite Chuck Norris...EVER)
To: EveningStar; al baby; BillyA; Dashing Dasher
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posted on
04/20/2009 5:39:08 AM PDT
by
JRios1968
(The real first rule of Fight Club: don't invite Chuck Norris...EVER)
To: wolfcreek
The Germans hated The Lightning...they called it, 'der Gabelschwanz Teufel' (the fork-tailed devil) ....P38's were one of the best ground attack planes of WWII. With a 20 mm cannon in the nose, self sealing fuel tanks, twin 1160 hp Allisons, either two 75 gal or two 150 gal drop tanks, and 1000 lbs of bombs, the P38D and above models were a big contibutor to Army air corp success.
Three P-38 fighter groups were operational in the Pacific, where Lightnings were accredited with the destruction of more Japanese aircraft than any other fighter in USSAF service. They are well recorded in the air force's history for a string of memorable actions, including the interception and destruction, some 550 miles (885 km) from their base, at Guadalcanal, of the Mitsubishi G4M carrying Japan's Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a skilful action carried out by aircraft from the 70th, 112th and 339th Fighter Squadrons. And, of course, the USAAF's 'ace of aces' of World War II, Major Richard I. Bong, scored all of his 40 confirmed victories while flying P-38s in the Pacific theatre. In Europe P-38s served mainly with the 9th Air Force, used extensively on long-range fighter escort duties in support of 8th Air Force daylight bombing missions against German targets.
It was the return bomber escort trips of those Lightnings the Germans didn't care for at all.
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posted on
04/20/2009 5:39:18 AM PDT
by
RSmithOpt
(Liberalism: Highway to Hell)
To: Aeronaut
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posted on
04/20/2009 5:40:33 AM PDT
by
Travis McGee
("Foreign Enemies And Traitors" will be ready the first week of May.)
To: Old Sarge
I also found a picture from 2005 - It's the Heritage Flight - what a beautiful plane!
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. It comes into us at midnight very clean. Its perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes weve learned something from yesterday. - John Wayne
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posted on
04/20/2009 5:47:21 AM PDT
by
Patrsup
(To stubborn to change now)
To: JRios1968
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