Two planes from Coast Guard Combat Cutters on the Greenland Patrol make reconnaissance flights over northeast Greenland
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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496.Photograph. Grumman J2F Duck. 'File No. 2974 Coast Guard planes help smash German weather bases in Greenland Two planes from Coast Guard Combat Cutters on the Greenland Patrol make reconnaissance flights over Northeast Greenland in operations that resulted in the recent liquidation of German weather stations in that barren land. Taking off from ice-strewn seas, these Coast Guard planes made frequent perilous flights to spot enemy ships and land bases. They hunted the German ships in a grim game of hide-and-seek among the ice floes and dropped supplies to Coast Guard landing parties moving against Nazi radio bases.' 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:
Military reconnaissance--American--Greenland
Airplanes--American--Greenland
Mountains--Greenland
Seaplanes--American--Greenland