"Operation Bolero II" Will Launch June 22
On July 15, 1942, a United States Army/Air Force Squadron
departed American soil on Operation Bolero, a World War II aid
mission to support US allies in the war torn European theatre. Due
to insurmountable weather-related problems en route, the entire
squadron of six P-38s and two B-17 bombers was forced to abort its
mission and make an emergency landing on a remote ice cap in
Greenland.