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- catalog abstract "Stationed at a lonely wind-pounded outpost in an isolated backwater of World War II, the nineteen men of the Greenland Ice Cap Detachment were charged with erecting a weather/rescue station on the ten-thousand-foot-high Ice Cap to serve the Polar aircraft-ferrying route to Europe and to provide vital weather data for the expanding war effort. Greenland's Icy Fury is a lighthearted accounting of one of the least accessible and least known but most stunning parts of the globe - southeast Greenland - and its natural history, geography, geology, glaciers, and foremost, its savage weather and awesome climate. The Polar route to Europe afforded stepping stones for then-short-range aircraft, even though the landing fields were mere pinpoints in the wilderness, but hazardous flying conditions took a heavy toll of planes and airmen. Hitler's Nazis as well as the Allies knew that Greenland's white expanse was a virtual weather factory that played a key role in the day-to-day weather of the North Atlantic shipping lanes and the battlefields of western Europe. Ironically, few people today even realize that American troops were stationed in Greenland during World War II or what obscure role these troops played. . A member of the all-volunteer Ice Cap Detachment, and a graduate geologist before the war, Wallace Hansen found time to look at the rocks, fjords, glaciers, and wildlife of southeast Greenland and to set down the framework for this book. Greenland's Icy Fury is aimed at inquisitive readers who appreciate the outdoors, are curious about their world, and would enjoy decidedly offbeat bits of WWII nostalgia.".
- catalog contributor b6370163.
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description ". A member of the all-volunteer Ice Cap Detachment, and a graduate geologist before the war, Wallace Hansen found time to look at the rocks, fjords, glaciers, and wildlife of southeast Greenland and to set down the framework for this book. Greenland's Icy Fury is aimed at inquisitive readers who appreciate the outdoors, are curious about their world, and would enjoy decidedly offbeat bits of WWII nostalgia.".
- catalog description "Hitler's Nazis as well as the Allies knew that Greenland's white expanse was a virtual weather factory that played a key role in the day-to-day weather of the North Atlantic shipping lanes and the battlefields of western Europe. Ironically, few people today even realize that American troops were stationed in Greenland during World War II or what obscure role these troops played.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-267) and index.".
- catalog description "Stationed at a lonely wind-pounded outpost in an isolated backwater of World War II, the nineteen men of the Greenland Ice Cap Detachment were charged with erecting a weather/rescue station on the ten-thousand-foot-high Ice Cap to serve the Polar aircraft-ferrying route to Europe and to provide vital weather data for the expanding war effort. Greenland's Icy Fury is a lighthearted accounting of one of the least accessible and least known but most stunning parts of the globe - southeast Greenland - and its natural history, geography, geology, glaciers, and foremost, its savage weather and awesome climate. The Polar route to Europe afforded stepping stones for then-short-range aircraft, even though the landing fields were mere pinpoints in the wilderness, but hazardous flying conditions took a heavy toll of planes and airmen.".
- catalog extent "xii, 276 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Greenland's icy fury.".
- catalog identifier "089096579X (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Greenland's icy fury.".
- catalog isPartOf "Texas A & M University military history series ; 32".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "College Station : Texas A&M University Press,".
- catalog relation "Greenland's icy fury.".
- catalog spatial "Greenland".
- catalog spatial "Greenland.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "940.53/982 20".
- catalog subject "D810.M42 H36 1994".
- catalog subject "Geologists United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Hansen, Wallace R., 1920-".
- catalog subject "Meteorologists United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Military meteorology Greenland History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "United States. Army Search and rescue operations Greenland History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "United States. Army Search and rescue operations History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Greenland.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, American.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Search and rescue operations Greenland.".
- catalog title "Greenland's icy fury / Wallace Hansen.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "Personal narratives American. fast".
- catalog type "text".