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30 Ιουλ 2018 · The next aircraft to be recovered, called Echo and piloted by Lt. Robert Wilson, has shifted over the years as the icecap was moving so the team had to use special radar technologies to locate it. Picture of Lt. Robert H. Wilson, the pilot of the P-38 named Echo. | Public Domain
16 Απρ 2024 · Seven decades later, a group called the Fallen American MIA Repatriation Foundation says it has used a heavy-lift drone aircraft equipped with ground penetrating radar to locate one of those lost planes, a Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter hidden under several hundred feet
27 Ιουλ 2018 · Over the decades, the ever-shifting ice sheets of Greenland buried the aircraft, known as the Lost Squadron, under between 250 and 300 feet of ice. Fifty years later, in 1992, one of the P-38s...
14 Δεκ 2017 · Many of you most likely know this story already, but the P-38 Glacier Girl was one of six P-38s and two B-17s that had to make an emergency landing on an icecap in Greenland on July 15th, 1942 due to inclement weather. The crews were collected unharmed and the 8 planes were left there to be eventually covered by snow and ice.
One of the P-38s, "Glacier Girl", was discovered in 1992 and restored to airworthy condition. Now, Smithsonian Magazine relays a report from Popular Mechanics that a second P-38, dubbed "Echo"...
9 Αυγ 2018 · A vintage P-38 has been discovered entombed beneath 340 feet of glacial ice in Greenland by the non-profit organization, Arctic Hot Point Solutions. The aircraft was identified as part of the...
Image shows the uncovering of the P-38 with its sleek nose, cannon and machine guns, rusted but still in place underneath the ice cap. Citation Bobbie Bailey Collection; SC-B-004; Box: 11, Item: PH-28, Department of Museums, Archives and Rare Books, Kennesaw State University.
