My Gal Sal (Aircraft) (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! My Gal Sal was the nickname of a World War II B-17E- BO Flying Fortress that crashlanded on the Greenland icecap and was later recovered for restoration. It is one of only three intact B-17E's in existence. On 27 June 1942, B-17E, 41-9032 - part of the 342nd Bomb Squadron of the 97th Bomb Group - was one of 13 B-17s flying the Labrador-to-Greenland leg of a ferry flight to the United Kingdom as part of Operation Bolero, the military build-up in Europe. Bad weather broke up the flight; five B-17s returned to Labrador, while the remainder continued on to Greenland. Over Greenland three of the aircraft were forced to land by the weather, including My Gal Sal.