My Gal Sal (B-17)
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On 27 June 1942 a B-17E-BO Flying Fortress (41-9032), named My Gal Sal, and another B-17 were navigating and acting as mother ships along with six P-38 Lightnings on a ferry flight to the United Kingdom as part of Operation Bolero, the military build-up in Europe, but were forced to land on a glacier in Greenland because of bad weather.[1] All of the crew were soon rescued, but the aircraft were abandoned. The aircraft were next seen on the ice in 1964 from a U.S.A.F. reconnaissance aircraft flying over Greenland, and My Gal Sal appeared to be intact. My Gal Sal was eventually recovered from Glacier in 1995, but My Gal Sal was found up-side-down on the glacier having been flipped-over and damaged by high winds by that time. It is being restored to a static configuration in Cincinnati.[2][3].
One of the P-38s has been recovered and restored as Glacier Girl.
[edit] References
- ^ B-17E “MY GAL SAL”. National Museum of the USAF. Retrieved on 7 February, 2007.
- ^ Hayes, David (November 1994). The Lost Squadron. Hyperion Books. ISBN 0786860480. Retrieved on 16 January.
- ^ History Of The B-17E "My Gal Sal". www.ultimatesacrifice.com. Retrieved on 16 January, 2007.
