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Title: Old Glacier Girl flying again
Post by: Terror on October 28, 2002, 11:18:22 AM

CNN Article (http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/South/10/27/glacier.girl.ap/index.html) about a P38 recovered from a Glacier and restored to it's original beauty.

Terror

Title: Old Glacier Girl flying again
Post by: iceydee on October 28, 2002, 01:43:43 PM

it's not the only thing the americans have crashed in Greenland... they also crashed a plane carrying an A-bomb there!!! :eek: :eek: (luckily nothing happened with the bomb though)

Title: Old Glacier Girl flying again
Post by: whgates3 on October 28, 2002, 11:47:53 PM

i read (in "tales of a war pilot")about a b-36 that crashed in brit columbia presumably w/ an a-bomb aboard and the wreckage went undiscovered for more than a decade...thought it was a 1 time event - guess not - who knows how many a-bombs are lying about.  there are 2 soviet h-bomb tipped missles at the botom of the pacific.
with the quickly rising value of WWII warbirds it will eventualy be cost effective to recover the rest of the Lightnings & Flying Forts from Greenland - maybe somdays theys drain the channel to get at all the 109s, Spits, etc down there...

Title: Old Glacier Girl flying again
Post by: Dowding (Work) on October 29, 2002, 02:43:10 AM

Not to mention Glen Miller's plane!:eek:

Title: Old Glacier Girl flying again
Post by: LePaul on October 29, 2002, 10:53:49 AM

Thanks for that link....wish someone had video!

Title: I think the web site does.
Post by: GtoRA2 on October 29, 2002, 06:27:36 PM

Lost squad (http://thelostsquadron.com/museum.html)


Read the book about the recovery. Sad really to much bickering and back stabbing.