PBS premiere
by February 22, 1999 12:00 am 59 views
“The Lost Squadron,” a video documentary by Larry Foley, an associate professor of journalism at the University of Arkansas, will premiere nationally on PBS at 9:30 p.m. April 12.
“The Lost Squadron” is being placed in PBS’s “History’s Best Series,” which includes such award-winning productions as “The American Experience” series and the films of Ken Burns.
“The Lost Squadron” is about eight airplanes — six P-38s and two B-17 bombers — that crashed on an icecap in Greenland in 1942. After nine days, the crew was rescued.
Fifty years later, one of the airplanes was excavated from beneath 268 feet of ice, disassembled, transported to the United States and reassembled in Middlesboro, Ky.
After being restored, the aircraft will be flown again, says Foley. The historic flight is scheduled to take place in October. Foley is currently in pre-production on part two of “The Lost Squadron.” It will be called “The Flight of Glacier Girl.”