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Summer temperatures are back up!


1951: An armada of ships containing 12,000 workers and 300,000 tons of cargo departed Norfolk, Virginia en-route to Greenland to build Thule Air Base. Arriving in Greenland in July, they worked around the clock in the short Arctic summer to complete the base before Baffin Bay froze up for the winter.

My dad flew many missions in a C-124 from Dover, DE to Thule. He said the local joke for new crew was there is a naked woman behind every tree. When he was up for a transfer he was offered Minot, or Hawaii. He said he jumped at Hawaii after spending too much time in Thule in the freezing cold.