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Colony Glacier

Air Force Lt. Col. Crystal A. Glaster, right, deputy commander of Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations, and Capt. Travis Lockwood, deputy ground forces commander for Operation Colony Glacier, discuss how a recovery team searches through debris at Colony Glacier, Alaska, June 14, 2024. Operation Colony Glacier is an effort to recover the remains of service members and wreckage from a C-124 Globemaster II that crashed in November, 1952 with 52 military members on board.

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