Sondrestrom
Air Base 1959
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Photo by William M. Nichols, 61st TCS Pilot |
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Sondrestrom AB, Greenland. A now covered Jamesway hut at DYE
II. This is one of two Jamesways
left at DYE II by the original surveying party of 1958. This was taken in March, 1959, when
the first C-130's landed at the site.
At DYE III, which is further in towards the center of the cap and
about 1,000 ft. higher in elevation, only a small portion of the two
smokestacks protruded above the snow when the first C-130's opened the camp
in 1959. The navigator flew
directly to the geographical coordinates of the DYE III site and had to
search the area for nearly an hour before the small smokestacks finally
appeared on the aircraft's radar.
Editor’s Note: The James Manufacturing Company of Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin,
created a version of the Quonset hut with wooden ribs and an insulated fabric
covering for the Army Air Corps in World War II. Caption by Bill Nichols. (Circa 1959) |
