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The Lost Squadron

Buried 1942, Koge Bay, Greenland
RECOVERED
Evidence status: Historical tradition. no documented source (historical tradition); legal status unknown (manual verification recommended). This account is presented as historical tradition, not verified fact. Manual verification recommended. Repository evidence: 0 sources · 0 timeline events · 0 media items · legal unknown · view on the Map Evidence on file: historical tradition

The Lost Squadron: still unexplained.

Warplanes under the glacier

The subject
developing the photograph…
The manifest
Warplanes under the glacier
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.
What the record holds

What remains open

  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.
What we know, and what we don't
Established

No documentary claim is yet established. The account rests on tradition.

Still open
  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.
The evidence room

No documentary or visual exhibits have been located yet. The trail below and the open leads are where this dossier grows next — every exhibit that enters here carries a source.

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.
  • Search Library of Congress + DPLA (IIIF) for period cartography of the site.
  • Run Chronicling America for dated newspaper mentions.
  • Query NARA for archival records tied to the site.

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Chart position 65.200°, -41.300° (approx.) View on the Map