Greenland during WW2
Greenland during WW2
According to this Statement by the Department of State on the US-Danish Agreement on Greenland, April 10, 1941, Greenland was under the protection of USA.
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/Wo ... enland.htm
1. How many US troops were deployed in Greenland?
2. How many Danish residents lived in Greenland during the war? Could they go to their mainland safely and unmolested until the US declaration of war against Germany?
3. Could USA maintain the normal relationship with the Danish govenment in Kopenhagen over the control of Greenland after December 1941?
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/Wo ... enland.htm
1. How many US troops were deployed in Greenland?
2. How many Danish residents lived in Greenland during the war? Could they go to their mainland safely and unmolested until the US declaration of war against Germany?
3. Could USA maintain the normal relationship with the Danish govenment in Kopenhagen over the control of Greenland after December 1941?
The population of Greenland was 22.000 in 1939 (20.500 of Danish stock/Danish-Eskimo, 500 Danes, 1000 Eskimos), After the fall of Denmark in April 1940 the administration of Greenland invited US forces to protect the island. Greenlanders created a sledge patrol to inspect the coast line and once such patrol had a combat with Germans from weather station, next day Germany evacuated that station and one man was captured by Greenlanders and lived till the end of WWII in single Greenlandic hotel German submarine sank Greenlandic fishing ship at sea during the war.
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There was another German weather station on the east coast of Greenland that was rounded up by the US Coast Guard. I think this was during 1943. I came across an article with photos in an issue of National Geographic Magazine from that period once, quite by accident.BIGpanzer wrote:Greenlanders created a sledge patrol to inspect the coast line and once such patrol had a combat with Germans from weather station, next day Germany evacuated that station and one man was captured by Greenlanders and lived till the end of WWII in single Greenlandic hotel
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The 'campaign', if we can call such tiny action that, against German weather stations in Greenland carried on well into 1944, culminating with the capture of the German trawler Externsteine in October 1944. Here's an interesting write-up about the Greenland Patrol
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Found this on Daneborg. It half way up east coast & used some left behind German equipment.
home6.inet.tele.dk/ron/greenland/daneborg.htm
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Daneborg (29.7.2005)
Daneborg. Weather Station. Station # Call Sign. Bluie code. Build. Location. OYK / OYA. N/A. Summer 1944. 74°18 N 20°14 W. Station "OYK" - later "OYA" - Daneborg: ... At the same time the station was christened "Daneborg". Assigned. Year ...home6.inet.tele.dk/ron/greenland/daneborg.htm
Here's whole thing. Has a couple cool photos if you can get access it.
home6.inet.tele.dk/ron/greenland/daneborg.htm
Sorry bout linkage.
Daneborg (29.7.2005)
Daneborg. Weather Station. Station # Call Sign. Bluie code. Build. Location. OYK / OYA. N/A. Summer 1944. 74°18 N 20°14 W. Station "OYK" - later "OYA" - Daneborg: ... At the same time the station was christened "Daneborg". Assigned. Year ...home6.inet.tele.dk/ron/greenland/daneborg.htm
Here's whole thing. Has a couple cool photos if you can get access it.
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This book covers the Danish sled patrol of Greenland.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... 0?v=glance
"Sledge Patrol tells how a handful of Danes and Norwegians on dog sleds patrolled a 500-mile perimeter of the Greenland coast to keep watch for Nazi invaders. When the day came, the men eluded the Germans using their hunting skills and knowledge of the Arctic terrain and managed to get back to base by walking the 56 miles without any equipment in some cases not even coats to bring word of the German presence"
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... 0?v=glance
"Sledge Patrol tells how a handful of Danes and Norwegians on dog sleds patrolled a 500-mile perimeter of the Greenland coast to keep watch for Nazi invaders. When the day came, the men eluded the Germans using their hunting skills and knowledge of the Arctic terrain and managed to get back to base by walking the 56 miles without any equipment in some cases not even coats to bring word of the German presence"
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Purple fang,
Get used to it. It's how we do things here, and it doesn't matter what you may or may not have done elsewhere. Anything looking like plagiarism from you will be summarily removed. Jeez, how hard is it to add quotation marks? I have done it for you this time. I won't do it again, understand?
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Another off-topic post seeking to continue the quibble was removed by this moderator -- DT.
The subject is Greenland during WWII, gentlemen. If you have sourced, fact-based comments to add to the readers' understanding of the subject, do not hesitate to post it. Unrelated remarks have no place here, and merely clutter the thread for those who are trying to get information on an interesting aspect of the war.
The subject is Greenland during WWII, gentlemen. If you have sourced, fact-based comments to add to the readers' understanding of the subject, do not hesitate to post it. Unrelated remarks have no place here, and merely clutter the thread for those who are trying to get information on an interesting aspect of the war.
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Greenland
Hi all
I´m From Denmark And just would like to let you all know that the "sledge patrol" still are existing it´s name is Sirius
and it is not for anybody.
And jus as a side note a kind of war is still beeing fought out up there between Denmark and canada for a small island called hansø
Heinz Richter
I´m From Denmark And just would like to let you all know that the "sledge patrol" still are existing it´s name is Sirius
and it is not for anybody.
And jus as a side note a kind of war is still beeing fought out up there between Denmark and canada for a small island called hansø
Heinz Richter
Re: Greenland during WW2
Hello, dear members!
What you know about bombed by USAAF 23rd March 1943 year Eskimonæs (Danish HQ of Northern Police District) in Greenland and about the destruction 17th May 1943 year Ella Ø (Danish Sub Police station in Northern Police District)?
What you know about bombed by USAAF 23rd March 1943 year Eskimonæs (Danish HQ of Northern Police District) in Greenland and about the destruction 17th May 1943 year Ella Ø (Danish Sub Police station in Northern Police District)?
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