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...Chicago Daily News last week reported news of this new U.S. air front. In a dispatch datelined "A Labrador Air Base," Newsman B. J. McQuaid told how construction crews waded ashore from ships off Labrador, cut down trees and built rafts to float their first equipment ashore, then built a corduroy causeway to the ships, then hauled enough tools and material ashore to build a dock. Afterward, in 20-ft. snows, they cleared a roadway 100 miles inland, built an airport complete with runways, hangars, living quarters...
Canadian airmen and planes now use the Labrador airdrome for Atlantic patrol; U.S. air forces will soon arrive...
...Labrador's air base is merely one in a string, stretching northward from Newfoundland to Baffin Island. From Newfoundland and Labrador planes fly a 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...
...Early in the week San Francisco's shortwave station KGEI had Mrs. Jonathan Wainwright broadcast a message of good cheer to "Skinny," accompanied by three wagging woofs from the General's pet Labrador Retriever. When the end of Bataan came, KGEI's "Freedom for the Philippines" rose to the occasion with a solemnity by which the grim survivors on Corregidor were moved to tears: "The world will long remember the epic struggle the Filipinos and Americans put up. . . . But what sustained them through all these months of incessant battle was a force more than physical...
...Specimens of such extinct creatures as the great auk, the Labrador duck, the sea mink; and the only Townsend's bunting (a bird) ever found in hand or in bush...