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| Title | Coast Guard, U.S. |
| Author | U.S. Coast Guard |
| Photo ID | 2009.01.08, C2-DA |
| Photo Description | Shannon Island, Greenland - German weather station shack captured by Coast Guard landing force during World War II. Circa 1944. Caption on back of photo: "The Coast Guard knocks out Nazis' weather station in remote Greenland. From this crude shack, hidden in the rocks and ice of Shannon Island, Greenland, the German broadcast weather information to their homeland. The hut was found by a Coast Guard landing force. It was abandoned, the Nazis apparently having fled soon before the Coast Guardsmen, ashore from a combat cutter, surrounded the establishment. There were six tents pitched in a snow bank , sleeping accommodations for 17 men, large supplies of ammunition , food and radio equipment, the latter having been destroyed. The Coast Guardsmen fired the installations. The Coast Guardsmen, atop the shanty , is Alphonse Szumiel, chief gunner's mate of Buffalo, N.Y." |
| Photo Location | Greenland |
| Custodial History | AINA: Baltimore, Maryland; Montréal, Québec; Calgary, Alberta |
| Institution | Arctic Institute of North America |
| Collection | Arctic Institute of North America Photo Collection |
| Type | image |
| Language | eng |
| Rights | http://digitization.ucalgary.ca/index.php/Conditions_of_Use |
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