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  2. Glacier Girl - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Lockheed P-38 Lightning - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Evelyn Sharp (aviator) - Wikipedia

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    The WAFS (under Nancy Love) were soon merged with the Women's Flying Training Detachment (under Jacqueline Cochran) to form the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP). Sharp died on April 3, 1944, in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, when the P-38 Lightning she was ferrying lost an engine on takeoff from New Cumberland Airport and crashed. She was ...

  5. 22nd Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron - Wikipedia

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    The squadron used Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft photo-reconnaissance variant F-5 throughout the war. The F-5 and F-5A were used from the summer of 1943 until the summer of 1944 when F-5B, F-5C, and F-5E Lightnings were brought in. All P-38 Lightning variants were used for the remainder of the war.

  6. The women who helped build WWII 'Vengeance' dive bombers - AOL

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    During WWII the American workforce took a massive hit when the majority of their employees were drafted and sent over seas. The women who helped build WWII 'Vengeance' dive bombers Skip to main ...

  7. Nose art - Wikipedia

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    The largest known work of nose art ever depicted on a World War II-era American combat aircraft was on a Consolidated B-24 Liberator, tail number 44-40973, which had been named "The Dragon and his Tail" of the USAAF Fifth Air Force 64th Bomb Squadron, 43d Bomb Group, in the Southwest Pacific, flown by a crew led by Joseph Pagoni, with Staff ...

  8. List of aircraft of World War II - Wikipedia

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    List of aircraft of Germany in World War II; List of aircraft of Japan, World War II; List of aircraft of Poland during World War II; List of aircraft of the Red Army Air Forces; List of Regia Aeronautica aircraft used in World War II; List of aircraft of the United Kingdom in World War II; List of aircraft of the United States during World War II

  9. List of United States Army Air Forces reconnaissance units

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    This aircraft was flown by Captain John H. Hoefler, who used it to shoot down three enemy aircraft in June 1944. This is a list of United States Army Air Forces reconnaissance units, primarily operating during World War II.