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Glacier Girl, a P-38 Lightning dug out from 268 feet (81.2 m) of ice in eastern Greenland in 1992. The P-38, with its distinctive shape, was used most successfully in the South West Pacific theater, where it destroyed more Japanese aircraft than any other US fighter but the Grumman F6F Hellcat.

Photo credit: Tech. Sgt. Ben Bloker, USAF