In July, 1942,
a squadron
of six U.S. P-38
fighter planes,
and two
B-17 bombers,
were on a flight mission
to England, when they were
suddenly bombarded
by severe weather.
All eight planes were forced
to emergency-land
on the southeastern corner
of the Greenland ice sheet,
about 29 kilometers
from the coastal edge.
All 25 occupants were rescued,
but the 8 planes had to be abandoned
on the surface of Greenland in 1942.
Eventually the planes were buried
beneath decades of ice and snow
accumulation.
The first “Lost Squadron” plane,
rescued in 1992, was buried under
268 feet of ice sheet growth.
In 1988, the search crews found
a P-38 buried 260 feet (79.2 meters)
below the surface of the ice sheet.
By 1992 the 260-foot depth
had grown to 268 feet (81.7 meters).
The plane was slowly
( piece-by-piece )
retrieved from the ice.
Another Lost Squadron plane
was found in mid-2018
… buried under 340 feet of ice,
another 72 feet – 21.9 meters
deeper than the 1992
recovery site for the first P-38
( 340 feet down, versus 268 feet down).
A glacier is a slow moving
river of ice.
Snow and ice accumulates on top
of the glacier, and melting / runoff
happen at the coasts.
Any melting of Greenland glaciers
from man made greenhouse gases,
is still too small to be detected.
Greenland glacier melting
is a theory, not an
actual measurement !