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Glacier Girl is a Lockheed P-38 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. [1]
P-38L 44-53232 at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. The Lockheed P-38 Lightning is an American two-engine fighter used by the United States Army Air Forces and other Allied air forces during World War II. Of the 10,037 planes built, 26 survive today, 22 of which are located in the United States, and 10 of which are airworthy.
The Lost Squadron boasted several first-rate aviation sequences, since the film was scripted by real-life Hollywood stunt flyer Dick Grace who flew in the film, as an uncredited "flier". [4] Utilizing the Hollywood fleet of war surplus aircraft, the production featured many famous stunt flyers and their mounts, including Grace, Art Goebel, Leo ...
The Lockheed Corporation designed the P-38 in response to a February 1937 specification from the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC). Circular Proposal X-608 was a set of aircraft performance goals authored by First Lieutenants Benjamin S. Kelsey and Gordon P. Saville for a twin-engined, high-altitude "interceptor" having "the tactical mission of interception and attack of hostile aircraft at ...
Richard Ira "Dick" Bong (September 24, 1920 – August 6, 1945) was a United States Army Air Forces major and Medal of Honor recipient in World War II.He was one of the most decorated American fighter pilots and the country's top flying ace in the war, credited with shooting down 40 Japanese aircraft, all with the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
In the 1949 crash, the pilot of the P-38 was with the Bolivian Air Force and was testing out the plane as part of a sale from the United States to Bolivia. "Glen Tigner, 21, an air traffic ...
Charles Peter O'Sullivan (July 31, 1915 – September 20, 2013) was a World War II veteran fighter pilot and squadron commander of the 39th Fighter Squadron, Army Air Forces while in New Guinea. He flew the Lockheed P-38 Lightning and was shot down on September 20, 1943, south of Wewak while escorting bombers.
On 10 November 1944—while Dahl was escorting B-25s that were attacking Japanese shipping at Ormoc Bay—an eastbound formation of Kawasaki Ki-61 "Tonys" intercepted Dahl's P-38 squadron. The P-38s made a first pass and Dahl shot down one of the Tonys, for his seventh aerial victory. As Dahl banked his P-38 for a second pass, it collided with ...