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The Frozen Graveyard: Aircraft Still Lost in Greenland

July 15, 1942. Eight American aircraft land on the Greenland ice cap. All 25 men survive. They leave the planes behind. More than 80 years later, those aircraft are still there — buried under over 300 feet of ice. This is the story of the Air Bridge of Death. The secret wartime route that delivered 9,000 aircraft from America to Britain. A route where weather killed more pilots than enemy fighters ever could. And of the planes that never made it out — still frozen beneath the ice, waiting to be found. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 *IN THIS DOCUMENTARY, YOU’LL DISCOVER:* • *The Lost Squadron* — 8 U.S. aircraft trapped in Greenland ice since 1942 • The WWII ferry route: *USA → Greenland → Iceland → Britain* • Why crossing the North Atlantic was often deadlier than combat missions • The infamous approach to *Bluie West One* — “one way in, one way out” • The *“Greenland Monster”* — weather systems that killed without warning • Lieutenant *Harry Smith’s* incredible *11-day survival trek* across the ice cap • Why over *500 aircraft* were lost on the North Atlantic ferry route • *Glacier Girl* — the P-38 Lightning recovered after *50 years underground* • How modern expeditions are *still finding wrecks today* ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📊 *KEY FACTS & STATS:* • Over *9,000 aircraft* ferried across the North Atlantic during WWII • *500+ aircraft lost* due to weather, navigation, and mechanical failure • The Lost Squadron buried under *268 feet of ice by 1992* • *Glacier Girl* recovery took 10 years and over *$2 million* • Lieutenant Harry Smith survived *11 days alone* on the Greenland ice cap • *Bluie West One* ranked among the most dangerous airfields ever flown • Some wrecks remained undiscovered for *60+ years* • Aircraft are *still being found* beneath Greenland’s ice today ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 *SOURCES & ARCHIVES:* • The Lost Squadron — David Hayes • U.S. Army Air Forces Historical Records • Air Transport Command — Official History • Greenland Expedition Society Archives • Glacier Girl Recovery Project Documentation • National WWII Museum Archives ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ *DISCLAIMER:* This documentary uses AI-generated narration and imagery for educational visualization. All information is based on archival records, military documentation, and academic research. Some scenes are artistic reconstructions created to support historical storytelling. This content is produced *for educational purposes* to preserve and share lesser-known history of World War II. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 *Subscribe for more hidden stories of World War II aviation and Arctic warfare.* 👈 *WATCH MORE FROM THE GREENLAND SERIES:* • How America Secretly Occupied Greenland • The Cryolite War: Greenland’s Secret Mineral That Helped Win WWII ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #WW2 #Greenland #LostSquadron #GlacierGirl #AviationHistory #MilitaryHistory #ArcticWar #WorldWar2 #P38Lightning #AirBridge #FerryPilots #HiddenHistory #Documentary