Lost Military
The Lost Squadron
Buried 1942 · Koge Bay, Greenland
FoundThe prize. Warplanes under the glacier
Where. Koge Bay, Greenland
Status. Found
Where. Koge Bay, Greenland
Status. Found
The account
Eight warplanes of a wartime squadron set down on a Greenland ice cap in 1942 and were swallowed by the glacier, until one P thirty eight was dug out from under two hundred and sixty feet of ice and flew again.
Leads, where the trail points now
- Six P-38 fighters and two B-17 bombers force-landed on the Greenland ice cap in 1942 and were buried under roughly 80 meters of ice; one P-38, Glacier Girl, was dug out in 1992 and flew again.
- The others still lie under the ice off Koge Bay, located by ground radar; recovery is brutally expensive and slow.
- The active lead is the ongoing effort to reach a second P-38, nicknamed Echo, deep in the glacier.
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