AFTER about ninety minutes of flying through dense cloud cover, the coastal mountains appeared through an opening. But where on the west coast were they … they were back on the east coast of Greenland… fuel would only last another twenty minutes. They landed on top of a remote ice cap in Greenland: Eight planes including two B-17 bombers.
That was on July 15, 1942.
Fifty years later a small group of aviation enthusiasts decided to locate the squadron and recover one of the planes. According to Svend Hendriksen, a resident of Greenland, what they found can help explain why Greenland’s glaciers have been melting so rapidly. He wrote:
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Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.
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