An expedition team of U.S. Coast Guard service members
An expedition team of U.S. Coast Guard service members and North South Polar, Inc. scientists and explorers display the POW/MIA flag in honor of the expedition to find the crash site of a WWII Coast Guard Grumm... More
Joint POW/MIA Personnel Accounting Command forensic
Joint POW/MIA Personnel Accounting Command forensic anthropologist Mindy Simonson uses a hand-held compass to mark radial lines from a datum marker to determine where a series of flags will be placed, on a glac... More
Expedition team members Nick Bratton, back row, Joe
Expedition team members Nick Bratton, back row, Joe Tuttle, Laurel Freas, Mindy Simonson, Frank Marley, 2nd row, Mitch Zuckoff, Jaana Gustafsson, WeeGee Smith, John Bradley, Lt. Cmdr. Rob Tucker, front row, Isa... More
Expedition members from Joint POW/MIA Personnel Accounting
Expedition members from Joint POW/MIA Personnel Accounting Command, North South Polar and U.S. Coast Guard break down the campsite and secure gear on the nunatak due to an approaching piteraq storm on a glacier... More
Lt. Cmdr. Rob Tucker, U.S. Coast Guard team leader,
Lt. Cmdr. Rob Tucker, U.S. Coast Guard team leader, right, and Jaana Gustafsson, a geophysicist with North South Polar, place flags two meters apart on a radial line extending from datum, on a glacier near Koge... More
Joint POW/MIA Personnel Accounting Command forensic
Joint POW/MIA Personnel Accounting Command forensic anthropologist Mindy Simonson stands at datum holding a GPS and measuring tape marking radial lines to determine where a series of flags will be placed, on a ... More
U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Ken Harman, a flight surgeon
U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Ken Harman, a flight surgeon deployed in support of the J2F-4 Grumman Duck joint recovery mission, adjusts the plastic edging of his solar snow melter, on a glacier near Koge Bay, Greenla... More
Utilizing Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN), a global
Utilizing Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN), a global Satellite Internet Network, with limited connectivity, Petty Officer 2nd Class Jetta Disco was able to transmit quality photography and full motion video... More
Air Greenland helicopter pilot Tom Andreassen signals
Air Greenland helicopter pilot Tom Andreassen signals to a fellow air crew member where to land near the nunatak on a glacier near Koge Bay, Greenland, Aug. 16, 2013. Andreassen, along with another aircrew, eva... More
An expedition team of U.S. Coast Guard service members
An expedition team of U.S. Coast Guard service members and North South Polar, Inc. scientists and explorers transport an ice melting machine over a crevasse near Koge Bay, Greenland, Aug. 29, 2012. The team use... More
Joint POW/MIA Personnel Accounting Command forensic
Joint POW/MIA Personnel Accounting Command forensic anthropologist Laurel Freas makes an entry in her field notes on her observations from using the subsurface camera at the excavation site on a glacier near Ko... More
Joint POW/MIA Personnel Accounting Command forensic
Joint POW/MIA Personnel Accounting Command forensic photographer Staff Sgt. Brian Kimball uses a plumb line to measure two meter spacing along radial lines from datum to determine where a series of flags will b... More
Joint POW/MIA Personnel Accounting Command forensic
Joint POW/MIA Personnel Accounting Command forensic anthropologist Laurel Freas rechecks marker flag placement against her notes at the excavation site where a series of bore holes will be melted on a glacier n... More
Petty Officer 2nd Class Jetta Disco lowers a down-hole
Petty Officer 2nd Class Jetta Disco lowers a down-hole camera at the wreckage site of the WWII Coast Guard J2F-4 Grumman Duck rescue aircraft missing for 70 years with three men aboard, beneath the ice near Kog... More
Joint POW/MIA Personnel Accounting Command forensic
Joint POW/MIA Personnel Accounting Command forensic anthropologists Mindy Simonson, left, and Laurel Freas compare notes regarding the placement of marking flags on the excavation site where a series of bore ho... More
Mitchell Zuckoff, an author embedded with the Joint
Mitchell Zuckoff, an author embedded with the Joint Recovery Mission – Greenland, signals to helicopter pilot Tom Andreassen, of Air Greenland, where to land near the nunatak on a glacier near Koge Bay, Greenla... More