Bluie East Two was a minor United States Army Air Forces airfield at Ikateq in eastern Greenland. It was operational from 1942 to 1947. After the United...
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60.150°N 43.883°W / 60.150; -43.883 (Bluie East 1) near Aqissiat on Prince Christian Sound Bluie East Two: Ikateq airfield with radio and weather station...
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Pituffik Space Base (redirect from Bluie West Six)
stations at Narsarsuaq Airport (Bluie West-1), Sondrestrom Air Base (Bluie West-8), Ikateq (Bluie East Two), and Gronnedal (Bluie West-9). In 1943 the Army...
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Sondrestrom Air Base (redirect from Bluie West Eight)
Sondrestrom Air Base, originally Bluie West-8, was a United States Air Force base in central Greenland. The site is located 60 mi (97 km) north of the...
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followed by Narsarsuaq Airport in 1942 (and now-abandoned USAAF airfields Bluie East Two and Marrak Point, both in 1942) and Pituffik Space Base in 1953 (although...
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Ivigtut. The American bases and stations were codenamed under the Bluie West and Bluie East moniker. President Franklin D. Roosevelt took a strong personal...
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Frobisher to Bluie West Eight and Bluie East Two in Greenland, rejoining the main route in Iceland. The later success of the main air route via Bluie West One...
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former Arctic explorer Colonel Bernt Balchen, who assisted with Bluie East Two and Bluie East Eight in Greenland to reduce the Gander, Newfoundland - Scotland...
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1941. A third field was placed on the east coast almost directly across from BW-1 at Angmagssalik (Bluie East Two). An interesting contribution to the...
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two innovative sites in central Greenland, and one at Kulusuk Island near Angmagssalik, not too far from the former USAAF airfield Bluie East Two. The...
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