July 3, 2025 AFMAO embodies 'No Airman left behind' - Operation Colony Glacier 2025 Forty miles from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, and accessible only by helicopter lies a wide, unforgiving landscape scattered with debris from a long-ago tragedy.
Oct. 1, 2018 AF announces Operation Colony Glacier casualty recovery The U.S. Air Force announced today the name of a service member who has been recovered from a C-124 Globemaster aircraft that was lost on Nov. 22, 1952.
March 7, 2016 AF announces Operation Colony Glacier casualty recovery The Air Force announced on March 7 the names of two service members who have been recovered from a C-124 Globemaster II that was lost on Nov. 22, 1952.
Nov. 3, 2015 AF announces Operation Colony Glacier casualty recovery The Air Force announced Nov. 3 the name of a service member whose remains were recovered from a C-124 Globemaster that was lost on Nov. 22, 1952.
Oct. 29, 2015 AF announces Operation Colony Glacier casualty recovery The Air Force announced Oct. 29 the name of a service member whose remains have been recovered from a C-124 Globemaster aircraft that was lost on Nov. 22, 1952.