In July 1942 the pilot decided for an non- scheduled stop. Stefan. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/wreck-wwii-fighter-plane- The Wreck of a WWII Fighter Plane Will Be Unearthed from a Greenland Glacier | Smart News | Smithsonian
Interesting subject/article The lost squadron - creation.com ‘Glacier Girl’, the actual restored P38 Lightning (2008). TD
This is another example of an aircraft,a modern aircraft of its time which unbelievingly ran out of fuel and was left with the intention of recovering it. When it came to recovering it many years later, a fire broke out which gutted the aircraft. Dream of Salvaging B-29 Goes Up in Smoke : Aviation: Fire before takeoff destroys warplane that crashed in Greenland in 1947. Three Southland men spent $1 million on three-year effort.
