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Magnolia - State Flower
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The First Sun Seen In Months In Northern Greenland As Seen
Through Forward Scatter Tropospheric Antennae located on "P"
Mountain. These antennae are part
of the DEWLine and are relay stations for the data going south. |
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| We were there to support BMEWS? The acronym stands for Ballistic
Missile Early Warning System. This was one of three sites at the
time. The others being in Clear, Alaska, and Fylingsdale,
England. They were placed there to protect the world from first attack
by the Russians using ICBM Missiles with nuclear warheads.
It is a mysterious but beautiful part of our world. Since I
worked for the Thule Times, while there in 1961, I have a large collection
of 8X10 professional black and white pictures. I am going to share
some of those with you to see if I can give you a feel for the place in
the early 60s. |
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O.K. Have I got your undivided attention now?
You may recognize Jayne Mansfield and her husband Mickey Hargitay (a
professional weight lifter). Jayne was at Thule with the Bob Hope
Show. If I have gotten your attention, I will show you the
"girls" of Thule before I get into a different form of sight
seeing for the area. |
| From left to right: (1) Anita Bryant, singer;
(2) an all-girl review from a college back home (and me); (3) Miss
World 1961 Rose Marie Franklin from London, England; (4) Dorothy
Provine, singer, dancer, movie star; (5) Jayne Mansfield,
blonde bombshell; (6) Bob Hope and Secretary of the Air Force
Eugene Zukert. |
| From left to right. (1) Building BMEWS; (2) Building
BMEWS; (3) BMEWS; (4) BMEWS with ice berg in foreground; (5) Dundas
Mountain fogged in; (6) Looking down on Dundas Mountain; (7) Dundas
Mountain in full moonlight; (8) Thule proper from overhead. |
| From left to right. (1) Old Danish Cemetery; (2) How
We Got Utilities; (3) Site iced in; Overview of Thule; (4) Thule Approach; (5) Thule
Approach; (6) Map of Greenland; (7) Sunset |
| The Planes of thule. From left to right. (1) A
B-52 has to make a stop; (2) Our main line of defense was F-102s; (3) Do
you know how many shots and flyovers it took to do this?; (4) This is how
I got to Thule - A C-47. Did get to go back home on a K-135,
however. |
| From left to right. (1) Me in front of BMEWS; (2) Me
with BMEWS Project Sign; (3) Me Stocking an Emergency Shelter; (4) Me with
the Eskimos with friend Herb Larmarque; (5) Eskimo encampment; (6) More Eskimos;
(7) Larry Libertore, Herb Lamarque and me wishing we could climb on that
plane and escape; (8) Me at KOLD radio station. |
| I did about everything on staff at Thule Times. You
can see an IBM compositing typewriter in front of me. Everything was
typed twice to determine spacing, editing, etc. Our CE folks through
together some pipes and the Fire Department came and sprayed it down with
water. The result? A beautiful Christmas tree in front of the
headquarters building. The Thuleites are singing Christmas carols
around the tree. |
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NOTE:
Here are some interesting facts concerning the picture of the chapel under
the ice. It was called the Ice Tunnel Chapel. It was located at the U.S.
Army Polar Research and Development Center, Camp Tuto, Greenland. The
chapel was put into use for the first time on May 27, 1962 when Chaplain
(Captain) Joseph V. Coshan said mass for a small congregation. The tunnel
was used for Army Research and Development projects under supervision of
the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratories and the
U.S. Army Engineering and Development Laboratories. This is arguably the
most unique and interesting picture I have on this site. |
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Here are a couple of patches that came from Thule. |
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