Camp Tuto and Camp Century housed service members from the U.S. Army Polar Research & Development Center. Writing a book on the R.G. LeTourneau Overland… Read More »U.S. Army Polar Research & Development Center (PR&DC) lighter
“The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey into Greenland’s Buried Past and Our Perilous Future” by Jon Gertner. The author has… Read More »What am I reading? January 14, 2021
I purchased this 25 years at Thule Air Base, Greenland mug at eBay. The mug shows the Air Base and Mount Dundas in the background.
Nate Galbreath’s page at http://thule1954.com is being redirected to a GeoCities page with the same content at http://www.geocities.ws/nategal/. The domain and hosting was no longer… Read More »thule1954.com
Writing the Overland Trains book has made me more sentimental. Conversations with individuals and their kin about the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line, Alaska, and… Read More »New DEW Line Challenge Coin & Beanie
Pine Tree Line – radar, planned 1946, handed over to Canada on 10Jan55 Mid-Canada Line or McGill Fence – 1956-1965DEW Line – radio frequency tripwire 1957-1993, most deactivated… Read More »North American Alert and Warning Networks
The Army’s Sno-Train is carrying a 12-ton load of an unspecified material. Even though images include dates, and sometimes locations, they can be wrong. I… Read More »Army Sno-Train image dated April 13, 1956
My photo from Coots Imagery arrived this weekend. It is an original press photo with types metadata on the reverse. I was really excited to… Read More »LCC-1 Photo Received: New Perspective
I found and bought a fantastic photo of the LCC-1 Sno Train on eBay yesterday. I’ve seen this photo on the net, but didn’t have… Read More »LCC-1 Sno-Train Photo