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Greenland's icy fury / Wallace Hansen.

Title: Greenland's icy fury / Wallace Hansen.
Author: Hansen, Wallace R., 1920-
Publication: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c1994.

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Description

xii, 276 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

Stationed at a lonely wind-pounded outpost in an isolated backwater of World War II, the nineteen men of the Greenland Ice Cap Detachment were charged with erecting a weather/rescue station on the ten-thousand-foot-high Ice Cap to serve the Polar aircraft-ferrying route to Europe and to provide vital weather data for the expanding war effort. Greenland's Icy Fury is a lighthearted accounting of one of the least accessible and least known but most stunning parts of the globe - southeast Greenland - and its natural history, geography, geology, glaciers, and foremost, its savage weather and awesome climate. The Polar route to Europe afforded stepping stones for then-short-range aircraft, even though the landing fields were mere pinpoints in the wilderness, but hazardous flying conditions took a heavy toll of planes and airmen.
Hitler's Nazis as well as the Allies knew that Greenland's white expanse was a virtual weather factory that played a key role in the day-to-day weather of the North Atlantic shipping lanes and the battlefields of western Europe. Ironically, few people today even realize that American troops were stationed in Greenland during World War II or what obscure role these troops played.
. A member of the all-volunteer Ice Cap Detachment, and a graduate geologist before the war, Wallace Hansen found time to look at the rocks, fjords, glaciers, and wildlife of southeast Greenland and to set down the framework for this book. Greenland's Icy Fury is aimed at inquisitive readers who appreciate the outdoors, are curious about their world, and would enjoy decidedly offbeat bits of WWII nostalgia.

Series Statement

Texas A & M University military history series ; 32

Uniform Title

Texas A & M University military history series 32.

Subject

Genre/Form

Biographies
History
Personal narratives – American

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-267) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

ISBN

089096579X (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^93036823^

OCLC

29222513
SCSB-10796029

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