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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.
P-38 Glacier Girl. Glacier Girl (41-7630), this P-38F-1 flown by 1st Lt. Harry L. Smith Jr., 94th Fighter Squadron, was one of six P-38 fighters of the 1st Fighter Group escorting two B-17 bombers on a ferry flight to the United Kingdom as part of Operation Bolero on 15 July 1942.
He collects World War II-era planes, and he owns 30, including Glacier Girl, which he bought for $10 million. [3] [6] [5] Since 2012 or 2013 he is the owner of M5, the largest single-masted yacht ever built. [7] Lewis and his wife, the former Kimberly Annette Spicer (born c. 1958), have four adult children. [3]
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 ...
On June 22, 2007 www.asb.tv was part of the team documenting the attempted completion of a 1942 mission by a P-38 from the “Lost Squadron.” The P-38 was “Glacier Girl” recovered from the Greenland icecap ten years earlier. A mechanical problem with the P-38 forced the team to abandon its mission similar to the original team who in 1942 ...
A 14-year-old girl was killed in Montana's Glacier National Park on Monday after large rocks fell from a mountainside and struck her family's vehicle.. The teenage girl, who has yet to be publicly ...
A little girl who lost a special teddy bear she’d had since being adopted from an Ethiopian orphanage thought it The post Teddy bear lost in Glacier park returned to 6-year-old girl appeared ...
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