![]() servicemen whose planes crashed in the same area were not so fortunate. Wilson and the other airmen from the lost squadron warplanes were rescued from the ice, but other U.S. The rediscovered fighter has been identified from its crash site as P-38 "Echo", piloted by Army Air Corps Lt. ![]() Salazar said that the area was known to pilots as Piteraq Alley because of its tendency to spawn severe snowstorms that can arise in minutes - called "piteraq" in the Greenland Inuit language.Ī similar storm kept the search team in its tents on the glacier for three days during this summer’s expedition, Salazar said. aircraft flew this route during World War II as part of Operation Bolero, which delivered warplanes, pilots, equipment and supplies for the planned Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe.īut after flying into a severe blizzard, the eight aircraft from the lost squadron were forced to crash-land on the surface of the glacier beside Køge Bay in southeastern Greenland. They were traveling through a chain of secret airbases in Newfoundland, Greenland and Iceland known as the Snowball Route. Ben Bloker/US Airforce)īoth aircraft were part of a group of two B-17 bombers and six P-38 fighters flying from the U.S. It was eventually restored to flying condition. A P-38 fighter from the same Lost Squadron known as "Glacier Girl" has also been recovered from the ice.
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