During World War II, as the United States was establishing a military presence in Great Britain in preparation for an invasion of mainland Europe, a squadron of six Lockheed P-38 Lighting fighter aircraft and two Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers were forced to make an emergency landing in the ice fields of Greenland because of bad weather. The crews were rescued nine days later without incident, but the eight planes were entombed in the ice and snow that accumulated in the ensuing decades.
One of those P-38s, now known as Glacier Girl, was extracted from the ice in 1992 by the Greenland Expedition Society, 50 years after it had been reclaimed by the Earth. Pat Epps and Richard Taylor of Atlanta had been searching for the lost planes for years, finally discovering them in 1988 thanks to new radar tech of the time. The planes had been carried two miles from their original location, and by the time they were found, they were under 264 feet of solid ice.
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Sin embargo, una eminencia del cambio climático como
Svein T veitdal, director de
Klima 2020, proclama sin rubor que Groenlandia se está derritiendo más rápido que en cualquier otro momento de los últimos 400 años, cuando en 1942 ocho aviones de la II Guerra Mundial quedaron enterrados bajo 80 metros de hielo.
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