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Secret Mission to Greenland July 1941 - The Building of an American Air Force Base
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Merriam Press Military Monograph 76. Fourth Edition (March 2012). In 1940 a decision was made between the U.S. and Great Britain to build an air base in Greenland. The mission for the airbase was to patrol the North Atlantic shipping lanes, to protect the cryolite mines at Ivigtut, Greenland, from German occupation. (Cryolite is a flux used in the refining of aluminum-the only known source in the world), and to act as a rescue station for any Allied planes that encountered trouble along the route. This is t...
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2012 Uitgever: Merriam Press 98 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 1470188619 ISBN-13: 9781470188610Koop dit boek tweedehands
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