Landing the Big One

Landing the Big One

Saturday, September 14, 2013

Saturday's Film: Building Thule AFB - "Operation Blue Jay"

America's front line in the 1950's on Danish "soil" in Greenland:



My dad was flying out of there back in the day.

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous4:21 PM

    I remember watching these. Along with Navy Log and the Silent Service.

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  2. I have watched this before. My dad was an air-sea rescue pilot at Thule in 1954-55. Flew H19s and SA16. They even had a B-17 in the hangar. Lots of pictures and some film. I'm actually working on a film about the building of Thule and its mission in the 1950s juxtaposed with its role today as a scientific research station for climate.

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