497.Photograph. Northland cutter ice breaker with a Grumman J2F Duck. "File No. 2988 Coast Guard Combat Cutter captures 28 Nazis in Greenland. This hardy battler of storm and ice is the Coast Cutter Northland which pursued a German armed trawler for 70 miles through twisting channels of Greenland ice and captured eight officers and 20 enlisted men after the enemy had scuttled their vessel. The Coast Guard gunners poured shells at the enemy ship during the chase. Coast Guard operations, in the summer and early fall, led to the destruction of two German radio-weather stations, the capture of 60 men, the capture of a new armed trawler and the scuttling of another. On the stern deck is a Coast Guard plane, which in reconnaissance flights figured prominently in winning the grim game up in the Arctic." No date