From a US Coast Guard Combat Cutter off Greenland during World War II

U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
Description: 

500.Photograph. 'File No. 2978 Coast Guard hits rugged Greenland coast in hunt for Nazi weather station-- From a Coast Guard Combat Cutter, a landing party leaves its small boat to hit the rocky coast of western Greenland in a preliminary action which led to ultimate liquidation of German weather installations and ships operating in the icy fastnesses of the Far North. The Coast Guardsmen go in armed for battle and trained in commando tactics. In the foreground, left to right: Coast Guardsman Allen J. Elmergreen, seaman first class (with gun) of 1166 Robinwood Avenue, Lakewood, Ohio; Walter D. Harris, a yeoman second class, of Jackson, Miss.[Mississippi]; Ray Pritchard, seaman first class, of Isabella, Tenn.[Tennessee]; and George English, motor machinist's mate second class (back to camera) of 150 Oxford Avenue, Haverhill, Mass.[Massachusetts]' No date

Image Information

Donor: 
Charles Ives
Accession Number: 
2011.102.500
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Theater of Service: 
European Theater of Operations (ETO)
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Topical Subjects: 
Sailors--American--Greenland
Rifles--American--Greenland
Collection Level: 
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
Latitude: 
72.000
Longitude: 
-40.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Sailors--American--Greenland
Rifles--American--Greenland