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| Title | Coast Guard, U.S. |
| Author | U.S. Coast Guard |
| Photo ID | 2009.01.06, C2-DA |
| Photo Description | NE Greenland - site of Headquarters of German radio-weather installation - captured by Coast Guard landing party. Circa 1944. Caption on back of photo: " Nazi headquarters in Greenland surrendered to Coast Guard landing party. Going ashore from a coast guard combat cutter before dawn, a landing party surprised and captured 12 Germans at a remote radio-weather station on northeast Greenland. This is the site of the headquarters of the enemy installation. Later, the Coast Guard cutter, acting with a second Coast Guard ship, located, surprised and captured a German trawler with its ship's company of 20. In a dramatic series of incidents in the Arctic during the summer and early fall, the Coast Guard frustrated German attempts to establish radio-weather bases -- taking 60 Nazi prisoners, destroying two bases, taking one armed trawler, forcing the scuttling of another and finding a third abandoned in the ice." |
| 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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