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...Sept lies, Canada to Goose Bay to Greenland to Iceland to Scotland-sudden storms blow up without warning; ice can form on wing surfaces at the drop of a single degree in temperature, and the approach to such key mid-flight havens as Greenland's fiord-fringed Narsarssuak airfield (known to thousands of World War II flyers as Bluie West One) is as often as not socked in blind by icy mists. Even though it is daylight almost round the clock along that route in summer, there are few landmarks to use as checkpoints. As Pilot Stiber says...
Sometimes the fog sweeps in from Narsarssuak Fjord, drowning the Quonset huts of the U.S. airport under a grey sea. Sometimes winds from the towering snow-mantled peaks moan across the glacial delta on which the airstrip is built, setting G.I.nerves on edge. In the pale, brief sunlight and long gloom of Greenland's winter, it does not take much to give a G.I. "cabin fever"- a disease which becomes acute when the mail is late...
...G.l.s. But 75% of all the Red Cross spends will go for men in the armed services, for veterans and their families. The post at Narsarssuak Fjord is only one of the 281 clubs, canteens and clubmobiles still maintained by 2,800 Red Cross workers overseas. The Red Cross would like to reduce the total, but military commanders beg them to stay: the self-reliant, battle-hardened G.l.s are gone, and in their place are bewildered youngsters in need of a stabilizing, familiar refuge. To suit the youngsters, the whole recreational program has been changed. Said one director:-"We have...
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