The Third Front: The Strange Story of the Secret War in the ArcticAllied campaign against German weather stations in the arctic, 1939-45. |
Contents
Chapter Page Authors Note | 9 |
Echoes in the Arctic | 12 |
Island X | 15 |
Copyright | |
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aircraft Allied Americans Arctic ashore attack Banak Banso Barentsberg base Bear Island boats British camp Cape Captain Thomas capture coast Coburg command comrades crash crew Danes darkness Dege destroyers east Greenland Eastwind enemy equipment Eskimonaes evacuated expedition Externsteine fire fjord flew floes force gale Germans Greenland Army Greenland Sea guns Hansa Bay Healey Heinkel hunting icefield Icefjord Iceland Jan Mayen Jensen Knoespel land Lieutenant light lonely Longyear City Luftwaffe meteorological miles mountains Narsarssuak naval Nazis night Northland Norway Norwegians Nusser Operation Operation Edelweiss pack party patrol pilot plane polar polar night Poulsen radio radio-sonde reconnaissance reconnoitred Ritter rocks Rodebrugger Russian Sabine Island Sachsen Schutze Scoresby Sound Shannon Island ship shore sight silence skies sledge snow soon Spitzbergen storm Svalbard Tromso troops U-boat Ullring vessel weather data weather reports weather station wegians wind winter yards