Colony Glacier – Eye on the Arctic

Colony Glacier, emptying into Lake George, is the site of a salvage operation underway by the Air Force. They are recovering the remains of a C-124 airplane that crashed in 1952. (Loren Holmes / Alaska Dispatch)

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IDs made in 1952 Alaska plane crash

Laurel Andrews, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Thursday, June 19, 2014 at 10:57
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Recent news that the remains of some of the service members who perished in a 1952 military plane crash in

Members of a specialized investigative team from the Join POW/MIA Accounting Command wait as a UH - 60 Blackhawk from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson comes in for a landing to transport them back after a day of assessing a historic aircraft crash site. The mission of the Joint POW/MIA Accounting command is to conduct global search, recovey and laboratory operations to identify unaccounted-for Americans from past conflicts in order to support hte Department of Defense's personnel accounting efforts. (Clifford Bailey / US Navy)

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Crews unearth military history on Alaska Glacier

Ben Anderson, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Thursday, July 4, 2013 at 09:23
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Colony Glacier, about 50 miles from Alaska’s largest city of Anchorage, may look calm on the surface, but it’s a