G. I. Joe Timeless Collection II Rescue of the Lost Squadron 12 Action Figure

In 1942, the first year of World War II, 25 Army Air Corps crewmen were forced down on the Greenland Icecap by severe Arctic weather conditions. Base command made little progress in rescuing these men from behind an iceberg-lined glacial barrier, and called on a small Army weather station located north of the crash site. The five-man rescue team took little time to prepare for this unconventional mission and were soon floating in their wooden boat through fields of floes with monstrous icebergs looming overhead, reaching the icy shore four days later.

They were eventually met by Greenland's U. Navy PBY, who followed the coastline to assist in the rescue by air. With skis, sled and sled dogs, the troop scaled the treacherous cliff of Greenland's mammoth Icecap and successfully rescued the.

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