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Before the war, Greenland was a tightly controlled colony of Denmark, otherwise closed off to the rest of the world. After the invasion of Denmark on 9 April 1940, Greenland was left on its own, because the United Kingdom's Royal Navy seized any ships arriving from Axis-controlled Europe.
Sondrestrom Air Base, originally Bluie West-8, was a United States Air Force base in central Greenland.The site is located 60 mi (97 km) north of the Arctic Circle and 90 mi (140 km) from the northeast end of Kangerlussuaq Fjord (formerly known by its Danish name Søndre Strømfjord).
There is a detailed account of a visit to BW-1 in the early days of World War II by Ernest K. Gann, in the book Fate Is the Hunter. [ citation needed ] The advent of aerial refueling , and the opening of the larger Thule Air Base in northern Greenland, made the base redundant, and it was turned over to the Danish government of Greenland in 1958.
Bluie was the United States military code name for Greenland during World War II. It is remembered by the numbered sequence of base locations identified by the 1941 United States Coast Guard South Greenland Survey Expedition, and subsequently used in radio communications by airmen unfamiliar with pronunciation of the Greenlandic Inuit and ...
Reports and photographs show Ikateq with considerable rusted fuel drums, vehicles, and ruins. The need for a clean-up has been an occasional political issue - resolved (at least financially) by an agreement mid-2017 between the Danish and Greenland governments. The clean-up was started in summer 2019, and is done by the company 60 North Greenland.
The Ivittuut mining operations were a major factor in the American occupation of Greenland during World War II. After World War II, the cryolite was mined by the Danish firm Kryolitselskabet Øresund, which helped fund the establishment of Grønlandsfly, today's Air Greenland. Cryolite was eventually synthesized, reducing the importance of the ...
Holzauge ([ˈhɔlt͡sˌʔaʊ̯ɡə], "wooden eye", nickname for a spotter) [1] was a Wehrmacht weather station that was built by Nazi Germany after the occupation of Denmark during World War II. It was located on the island of Greenland , which is currently an autonomous territory within the Danish Realm .
Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in Greenland (5 P) Pages in category "World War II sites in Greenland" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.