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Glacier Girl is a Lockheed P-38F Lightning, World War II fighter plane, 41-7630, c/n 222-5757, restored to flying condition after being buried beneath the Greenland ice sheet for over 50 years. Glacier Girl was part of the Lost Squadron.
In 1942, Glacier Girl was a brand new Lockheed P-38F, one of hundreds of airplanes sent as part of U.S. Army Air Force had its pilots base-hop across the North Atlantic from Maine to...
5 Ιαν 2024 · Glacier Girl is the only rescued survivor of an entire squadron of P-38s and B-17s that attempted to cross over Greenland in 1942, during WWII. This aircraft was finally pulled piece by piece from under 268 feet of ice on August 1, 1992.
1 Δεκ 2007 · Snuggled into echelon formation 10 feet off the Pilatus' left wing, Steve Hinton guides what's perhaps the world's most famous warbird, the P-38 Glacier Girl. Ten feet off the right wing, Mustang expert Ed Shipley flies Miss Velma , a newly rebuilt TF-51 Mustang.
1 Ιαν 2024 · Buried for over 50 Years Under 268 Feet of Ice, Glacier Girl, the recovered and restored WWII P-38 is now at the Lone Star Flight Museum through Jan. 31, 2024, marking the first time the aircraft has ever been on museum display.
History of Glacier Girl. As “Europe first” was the policy declared by then President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Operation Bolero began its phase in history as a massive buildup and movement of Allied aircraft into the European theatre.
17 Ιαν 2024 · After a harrowing rescue operation the Glacier Girl was unearthed from its icy grave, the sole, rescued survivor of the squadron of P-38s and B-17 warplanes that attempted to cross over Greenland.
