A Denver man is leading a mission to find, and bring home, the remains of three war heroes from one of the harshest places on the planet — Greenland’s ice cap.
“Greenland is a very harsh environment,” said John Bradley, president of . The company participated in the last three government-led expeditions to search for the men who have been missing for 74 years. But now, for the first time, a privately funded group is making an effort to succeed where others have failed.
In 1942, shortly after the United States entered World War II, a B-17 bomber crashed on the Greenland ice cap and, remarkably, all nine crew members survived. Two U.S. Coast Guard aviators, pilot Lt. John Pritchard and radioman Benjamin Bottoms, hatched a rescue plan to make their amphibious biplane the first to ever land on the glacier. They rescued the two most severely injured men, but after picking up another soldier on the second trip, a storm moved in and their plane went down.
Since then, the U.S. government and private groups have made several attempts to find the crash site and those expeditions were featured in the New York Times bestseller “Frozen in Time.”
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