Word: narsarssuak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
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