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April 1, 2023
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Not Forgotten

Ernie Hand recalls the gasoline fireball filling the plane up to his ankles. He had managed to bring the U.S. Navy P2V-7LP Neptune back to the edge of the ice shelf before the crash landing that sent the converted bomber skidding across a half-mile of ice. Fifty years later, a memorial to the men who died and survived that tragedy was erected in Antarctica.

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