Coast Guardsmen use ropes to cross melted ice on a bay in Greenland as they search for Nazi radio-weather installations
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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499.Photograph. 'File No. 2977 Crossing a 'puddle' in Greenland on hunt for Nazi weather station Coast Guardsmen, armed for a fight, use lines to cross a 'puddle' of melted ice on a bay in Greenland as they search for Nazi radio-weather installations. During two stirring months in Greenland's ice fields, the Coast Guard destroyed two German stations, captured an armed enemy trawler, forced the scuttling of another, and took 60 Nazi prisoners. Since the beginning of the war, the Germans have repeatedly attempted to maintain radio-weather stations in Greenland, but have been frustrated by alert action by the Coast Guard.' No date
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The Charles Ives Collection consists of 719 photographs from the Pacific Theater of WWII. Many of the photographs were taken between 1944 and 1945. Mr. Ives inherited the photographs from a friend from Marblehead, Massachusetts who served as an aviator in the Army Air Corps and discharged as a Major in 1945.
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Grønland
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72.000
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-40.000
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Sailors--American--Greenland
Ropes
Sunglasses
Ice floes--Greenland
Rifles
Bays (Bodies of water)--Greenland