Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within three hours after the wreck was spotted, a Navy PBY dropped down on a lake three miles from the wreck. From the moored plane, a 13-man rescue party from the U.S. Army, led by Dr. Samuel P. Martin, onetime Arctic explorer, fought its way in rubber boats up the rocky, racing Southwest Gander River, tumbled repeatedly into the icy waters. They hacked their way through tangled forest to reach the wreck. A faint cheer went up from the survivors. Eighteen of the 44 were alive, all but four of them badly injured. Twenty-four had died...
Three news items last week underlined the growing Canadian-American military interest in the Arctic...
...R.C.A.F. announced that a survey party, flying low over the vast, frigid Foxe Basin in the Arctic Ocean, had rediscovered the Spicer Islands, first found by a Massachusetts whaler in 1897 and then "lost." Flight Lieut. J. F. Drake of Vancouver said that runways could be constructed on two of the marshy islands but that they would be ". . . hazardous operational bases...
...airfields, one the big field at Churchill with its paved, 6,000-ft. runways, and ten scattered weather stations throughout the north. This brought the current number of U.S. military attaches in Ottawa to three ground forces officers and five airmen. It also plainly hinted that defense in the Arctic was an airman...
Huge, husky (242 Ibs., 6 ft. 3 in.) Cap Krug looked like an Alaskan himself when he got into a wool shirt. He flew across the Arctic Circle to Point Barrow, ate whale meat, and walked through a litter of walrus heads to duck into native shacks. He surprised his guides by landing two-foot rainbow trout in the Kenai River. He also listened-and listened. Everywhere he went-Fairbanks, Point Barrow, Anchorage, Seward, Juneau, Ketchikan, Sitka, Metla Katla-Alaskans who had always wanted to tell the Secretary of the Interior what they thought of the Government proceeded...