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...constant anti-submarine patrol. The Labrador fields, although north of the Army's bases in Newfoundland, are better off for all-year flying than those in Newfoundland. Reason: Newfoundland's persistent, plaguing fogs, which have often interrupted but never halted bomber deliveries to Britain. Even Greenland's vast, inland icecap is not the hazard which most people suppose it to be. Says the U.S. Army Air Corps Arctic Manual (published in 1940): ". . . Greenland is practically one continuous and nearly perfect landing field for planes equipped with skis. Most of the inland ice is good for wheels...
...Atlantic conveyor belt may start moving soon. According to reports published last fall, and in the Daily News last week, Army fields in Greenland are or soon will be ready for use. The Army already has airfields in Iceland, where U.S. Major General Charles Hartwell Bonesteel has taken over the command of all troops from Britain's Major General Henry Osborne Curtis. Last week General Curtis received the Distinguished Service Medal, first U.S. decoration awarded to a Briton in World...
...Corps at University 20, during the next two days. But they will not find it any draft-dodging device or soft war berth. The Marines may want a man with a sheepskin, but they want to train him to lead platoons in combat. Their officers are now serving from Greenland to the Philippines and from Alaska to the tropics. Part of the U.S. Navy, the Marine Corps is the spearhead of our first line of defense. Each division is a self-sufficient unit, containing field artillery, infantry, and aviation. Its functions range from guarding navy yards to dispatching expeditionary forces...
...Larger: Greenland, New Guinea...
Once, between wars, he was forced down in the African desert and rescued by a British R.A.F. captain. Once he landed his plane on an iceberg in Greenland and was lost for four days alone on the ice. On his two trips to the U.S., for the National Air Races in 1931 and 1933, he chilled crowds by picking up handkerchiefs with a hook on his wing tip. He dived a type of plane he had never flown before under the 135-foot clearance of New York's Hell Gate Bridge. But he distrusted speedy skyscraper elevators, preferred stairs...