Air Force Airmen and Soldiers establish a remote weather observation post at the base of Colony Glacier, Alaska, in support of Operation Colony Glacier June 17, 2021. Operation Colony Glacier is an effort to recover the remains of service members and wreckage from a C-124 aircraft that crash landed in November 1952 with 52 military members on board. The wreckage was discovered in 2012 and a recovery effort has taken place each summer. This will be the 9th year of recovery efforts.

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