[wolfcreek]

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!

[wolfcreek]

Ping!

[cripplecreek]

That was on the history channel first thing this morning.

[Old Sarge]

I found a pic of Glacier Girl at the 2005 Oshkosh Air Show!

[MAD-AS-HELL]

http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=297

[SouthDixie]

Great story and coolio video...thanks for posting.

[JRios1968]

Ping!

[RSmithOpt]

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.

[Travis McGee]

ping

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, strange, ain't it? I mean, since Greenland is melting catastrophically, seems like boring down almost 300 feet shouldn't have been necessary. ;') Thanks wolfcreek.

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[DuncanWaring]

Fortunately, Glacier Girl turned out better than Kee Bird.

[silverleaf]

bttt