The Lost Squadron

This program follows the rescue of "Glacier Girl" from the ice of Greenland to its new home in Middlesboro, Ky., where it is being meticulously restored to its former glory

[@e1ectricfee1]

That’s my grandfather! Brad McManus.

[@bobjamieson7906]

WOW, COOL!

[@bibledoodles9648]

That's really cool to have a documentary over your grandfathers unique WW2 experience.

[@LowEarthOrbitPilot]

May God bless him 🙏🏼☦️ Grateful for his service to our nation!

[@LeftyLucyRightyTyty]

I've been looking for a video, about this subject, of this caliber, FOR YEARS! Thank you. I can remember reading about the lost squadron, in grade school(late 1960s). Then, the big deal was that everybody survived. Over the years, I remember ANY mention of the subject...on the evening news...in the magazines..news papers....BUT NEVER has any of them shown the candid photos of the actual experience....THANK YOU!

[@JetFire9]

It was sitting here for 4 years and you missed it the whole time?

[@LeftyLucyRightyTyty]

@@JetFire9 yeah...kinda like it took you a year to come up with a comment.

[@JetFire9]

@@LeftyLucyRightyTyty nope. Just got here

[@josephhopkins6513]

This show the lost squadron has the rarest funding credits that you have ever seen before.

[@DanLiffick]

This is epic! The story kinda unfolds like the movie titanic. I just wish we could have heard more about Ol Spider and his exploits.

[@brionburkett3365]

15:04 Imagine knowing this and still demanding everyone on earth believing arctic ice shelves take hundreds of thousands of years to form...

[@shamoy1000]

Wow, under 265 ft of ice. Climate scientists taking core samples would date that plane at about 5000 yrs old.

[@bobjamieson7906]

The planes reached WERE 165-170 feet deep. That's well documented! You know very little about the formation of the surface of Glaciers in this part of Southern Greenland.

[@shamoy1000]

@@bobjamieson7906 I'm quite familiar with the P38 Glacier Girl plane and it's history. In 2007 I saw it in person and spoke with one of the owners at an airshow in Ohio. Apparently you don't know much about the climate scientists claiming each graduation/layer of glacier ice represents/ equal to the annual rings of a tree. 😂 As an avid ice fisherman in the upper midwest I can assure you that each year, on every lake, dozens of new/different ice layers form on the top and bottom of the lake ice with each snowfall, melting and refreezing, cold snap, and some spilled coffee. For climate scientists to suggest/claim that layers of glacial ice is somehow related to the biological process of tree growth is ridiculous/stupid/outright bullsht propaganda. You are welcome.

[@shamoy1000]

@@bobjamieson7906 BTW, If you just go through a little effort to goggle "Glacier Girl" you see that due to the uneven surface of glacier ice the plane was buried under 250 - 300 ft below the surface. ALL IN 50 YRS. Your welcome again.

[@JetFire9]

@@shamoy1000 Thank you for speaking up against the evil lefty propaganda. It’s more dangerous than anything Goebbels invented.

[@howieduin915]

I can admire their enthusiasm and their tenacity, but I think they're a bit nuts.

[@MrBook123456]

good video

[@Gtown1777]

Hell let's go get the rest of them. Who's in?

[@JasonRyanWilson]

The hangar is in Middlesboro, Ky.

[@CACTUS48]

It seems like they should have continued to Iceland, they might not have lost the squadron. I have heard the story that Iceland had clear weather. A radio message from possibly a Nazi sub indicated that Iceland has bad weather. I am a pilot, I would have kept going...

[@adamhoffman3687]

That's proof that the impossible just takes more time and money

[@lindalakota38]

That is crazy he is going to try to fly same route it crashed id try to keep it close to home and in one piece

[@ViaGoldenGate]

The real story here is, if a glacier increased in thickness by 268 feet in 50 years, how long did it take to form the 1.9 mile total thickness of the Greenland ice shield. Simple math: 1’9 miles is 10,032 feet (max thickness of the Greenland ice shield), divided by 268 ft (how deep the plane was barried in 50yrs), so a multiple of 37. So it takes 37 times, 50 years, to form the glacier. That works out to 1872 years. Even with some room for error, it’s nowhere near the 1,000,000 years we are asked to believe for the age (Google it and see what the popular opinion is). The answer Is a lot closer to the few thousand years as explained by the bible.

[@animalyze7120]

Your idea is sound but the math is wrong. The Glaciers move break up and return to the sea in regular cycles, the Greenland sheet moves literally inches per day. While the math you offered is correct it's very general and biased based to reinforce your creation theory. The glacier as it sits today is only a small remnant that continues to shrink then grow at a regular rate, the size it's at currently is only what's been built up for the last 2000 years or so but you discount the millions of tons more that has gone back to the sea. Good try but a fail nonetheless.

[@ViaGoldenGate]

@@animalyze7120 I wish you experts would be consistent with your guesstimates. “The best known of these outlet glaciers is Jakobshavn Glacier (Greenlandic: Sermeq Kujalleq), which, at its terminus, flows at speeds of 20 to 22 metres or 66 to 72 feet per day.” So what is it , inches or 70 feet? From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_ice_sheet

[@shamoy1000]

Climate scientists claim the layers of ice represent annual growth like the rings of a tree. Total bullsht. They represent the number of snowfalls and melting/refreezing.

[@bobjamieson7906]

Shoffner became involved (only) years after the Greenland Expedition Society began searching, finding, and finally developing a method to tunnel down 170 feet to actually locate this P-38 and a B-17. Mr. Shoffner brought with him the cash required to disassemble and bring Glacier Girl to the surface which was important, no doubt, but the GES Expedition Society was involved for many years prior, doing the impossible to actually locate and then figure out how to tunnel down to reach it. Mr Shoffner came on the scene only years later and supplied funding.

[@robertcarveth8722]

In my younger days I camped out in the snowfields and we would lay a bed of sticks and light our fire on this , It would not be long before one was reaching down two feet or more to pick up the kettle. Years later I saw this technique being used to dig down to the planes.

[@michelmartin2219]

super men!

[@whitenoiseproaudio]

why fly over Greenland to get to England unless of course the world really is flat!!

[@animalyze7120]

They do that for obvious safety reasons a hair brained flat earth twit couldn't understand. And btw they do regularly cross the oceans when time is of importance which blows that whole idiot reasoning out of the water literally. To think our planet is the only disc shaped formation in the known universe is pure idiocy and shows lack of study.

[@shamoy1000]

This was in the 1940's. They couldn't fly all the way across. They had to refuel in Greenland or Iceland.

[@bobjamieson7906]

Are you a pilot? Do you have an airplane with enough fuel to fly from North America direct to the UK?

[@harryalexander9106]

Standard route, for the B17 and B24, this allowed maximum range and safety for the trip, from multiple places to Goose Bay, then Iceland, then Wales or Scotland. Some early trips had more direct routes, but it was dangerous with no room for error. Several planes were lost. The p38 didn't have the range. see the Veteran interviews of B-17 veterans by Raymond McFalone here on youtube

[@fredbrush7874]

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