Greenland – Overland Trains

Sno-Train in Greenland 1956

The Sno-Train arrived in Greenland in June 1956. It was being tested in extreme conditions. The Army Transportation Corps was…

In 1955, Christmas dinner looked and felt a little different for Air Force Service Members at the “Top of the…

The TC-264 Sno-Buggy spent some time in Greenland testing out the HUGE Firestone 120x48x68s and a few unpowered trailers. It…

Camp Century was a United States military installation buried under the northwestern tip of the Greenland ice sheet. It was…

Last month I was contacted by a man who said that his father worked at R.G. LeTourneau’s Longview, TX factory.…

The Russian humor/satirical magazine “Crocodile” began publishing in 1922. During the United States Greenland build-up, the Soviets were watching us…

In the late 1950s, the United States Army (USAR) started carving ice tunnels in the Greenland ice shelf. The tunnels…

In 1966, after 3 years of drilling, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratories (CRREL) reached 4,550 feet deep in the…

the Norwegian Antarctic Research Program’s Thule Station was established in 1995. It is located in Pituffik, Greenland (Thule Air Base…

This is my second Thule Air Base mug. The most recent mug is porcelain and glazed, whereas the first mug…

This chart was found on SIPRE Report 15 dated September 1953.

“Exploring Greenland: Cold War Science and Technology on Ice (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology,” 1st ed.…