Demolition charges toss a spectacular geyser of ice and water as the crew of a Coast Guard Combat Cutter blasts its way toward a remote stretch of Greenland's east coast
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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501.Photograph. 'File No.2962 Coast Guard blasts a passage in hunt for Nazi Greenland base Demolition charges toss a spectacular geyser of ice and water as the crew of a Coast Guard Combat Cutter blasts its way toward a remote stretch of Greenland's east coast on a hunt for hidden German radio-weather stations. Knocking out two of these stations rewarded the Coast Guard's Greenland Patrol in ten weeks of intensive action among the ice floes. Sixty Germans were captured, one armed trawler was captured, another was scuttled by its crew. Four Coast Guard Cutters participated in the dramatic series of incidents up in the Arctic.' 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.
Geography:
Grønland
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72.000
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-40.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Ice floes--Greenland
Ice-breaking vessels--American--Greenland
Coastlines--Greenland
Explosions--Greenland
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