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, i ,i I I',I , ,'"E'" , ' IT"H"1 CoA~TGuARD :'.~: .",~, ,':::" !' "';: "'if!: ,",I"" "" '" ;"'d,,, , !" : -:, " '::",':.::;;"i""""",, ,,' _. ,',,'" " ,c'': ,,;' _.- .:' &""'"'T'", ;,( 'HE' GREENi !ND PATROL BY J ,A. Tilley i I ., I Patrolling the ~old Front Min.fral Dt~posits Crucial for Aluminumtroduction Spark \XJ'\'XlII Interest I N 19411, I\!IOST AMERICANS WHOKNE'W wid~ belt that the Eskimos c.aU the storls, a if: that Grcc::nland .eX.lsted thQUISht.Oflt.. ag a Inaijs offloatlQS icebE~rg.s r.lUl.lling fmm l:l few I nondescript white blob the tops of yar~ls to several city blocks wIde, During the their world maps.That the place m.lght have wln~er G~eenland is almostisolated from the any miUtary sl.gnlflC1ince. to the grcatpowef8 res~of the world; only sh.lps eqUipped for had occurred to scarcely anyone -least of bre~klng Ice can force their way into the all to the people wilt) lIved there, But In the fjor~lfl .. Few have reas,on to try. nm'l. five yea,.rs Greenland was to become a l~ the spring and SUlllmer the climate of small bu.t ,signUkaint theater of war, and was 90u~hern OrJeenlalld 1& relatively congenial, to confront the U.s. Coast Guard with some wltl temperatures warming to the 50s as of the mostardtlous duties it had ever been chU~ks of glacial icermnble down the fjords called upon to perform. on !heil' way out to sea. The storls, pro pened by the current, drifts westward arO~!nd Cape Farewell, the southern tip of the lisland.
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