Free Republic

On July 15, 1942, a flight of six P-38s and two B-17 bombers, with a total of 25 crew members on board, took off from Presque Isle Air Base in Maine headed for the U.K. What followed was a harrowing and life-threatening landing of the entire squadron on a remote ice cap in Greenland. (See photo of downed P-38 from the "Lost Squadron.") Miraculously, none of the crew was lost and they were all rescued and returned safely home after spending several days on the desolate ice.

Harrogate man spent millions to rescue P-38 MIDDLESBORO Ky. - Glacier Girl, part of a breed of celebrated World War II fighters that was resurrected from a Greenland ice cap like a frozen Madonna from the 1940s, will fly again Saturday. At least, that is the hope and prayers of those who have labored since 1992 to restore the Lockheed P-38 Lightning F to its pristine 1942 fighting trim. The plane was at that time the nation's latest technology in combat aircraft versatility with her twin engines and twin-boom tail design, the Lightning was known to the Germans as "der...