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	Bluie West One - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bluie West One airfield was built on a glacial moraine at what is now the village of Narsarsuaq, near the southern tip of Greenland.
		Other important bases in Greenland were Bluie West Eight near the present-day town of Kangerlussaq, and Bluie East One on the almost-uninhabited east coast.
		Landings were (and still are) made to the east, with takeoffs to the west, regardless of the wind direction.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bluie_West_One (382 words)

	Contact us (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The airbase with the code name ” Bluie West One ” had during World War II squadrons of PBY Catalinas and B-25 Mitchells with the assignment to escort allied convoys and track and destroy German submarines.
		Bluie West One was now shared as airbase between USA and Denmark, and in 1952 Danish Air Force stationed ” Airgroup West ” with a PBY Catalina at Narsarsuaq.
		US Air Force left Bluie West One in November 1958, and the airbase was closed, but in January 1959 the Danish ship " Hans Hedtoft " an all onboard was lost near the southern tip of Greenland, and the Danish Authorities decided to reopen Narsarsuaq.
	iserit.greennet.gl /bgbw/contact.html (393 words)

	Transportation in Greenland Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Following the ceding of operational control of Greenland to the United States by Denmark for the period in which that country was occupied by Germany during World War Two, airports were built on the island.
		The airports we codenamed Bluie West One through to Bluie West Eight on the west of the island and Bluie East One to Bluie East four on the eastern side.
		The largest of those airports, Bluie West Eight, now renamed Kangerlussuaq, remains the international hub for travel to Greenland, as it is the only airport that has a large enough runway to service jumbo jets.
	borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/t/tr/transportation_in_greenland.html (349 words)

	Kangerlussuaq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Kangerlussuaq is a settlement in west Greenland at the head of a fjord of the same name.
		Kangerlussuaq was also known as Bluie West Eight during its time as an American military base.
		Military leaders responded by building several bases in Greenland, the largest of which were Bluie West One in Narsassuaq in southern Greenland and Bluie West Eight at the Kangerlussuaq fjord.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/k/ka/kangerlussuaq.html (357 words)

	Comanche, WPG-76 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		She arrived Bluie West One on 11 November 1942, and on the 13th left Kungnat Bay, escorting eight freighters, two Army transports and the Bear to St. John's.
		The Comanche and Escanaba landed the Dorchester survivors at Bluie West One on 14 February 1943.
		The Nevada sank on the 16th and the Comanche reached Bluie West One on the 21st, delivering the Fairfax and landing the 29 survivors of the Nevada, proceeding to Gronne Dal on December 24, 1943.
	www.uscg.mil /hq/g-cp/history/Comanche_WPG_76.html (3624 words)

	Remembering Bluie West One
		PBY Catalina amphibious patrol bomber on the steel-mat runway at Bluie West One, with Quonset huts in the background, in 1943 or 1944.
		BW-1 was a U.S. Army airfield from 1941 to 1947, and as Narsarsuaq Airbase a U.S. Air Force installation from 1947 to 1958, when it was turned over to the Danish government of Greenland.
		Here is Bluie West One at the height of its powers, with the east-west runway now hard-surfaced, a secondary runway at an angle to it, and a full quota of buildings.
	www.warbirdforum.com /bluie.htm (195 words)

	USCG Transports & Escorts: USS North Star (WPG-53)
		She anchored off the Army base at Bluie West One on April 3, 1942, but was placed in quarantine because of a case of measles on board.
		She departed in a convoy consisting, in addition, of the Mohawk and Nanok for Bluie West One, Greenland, arriving on the 27th.
		She anchored at Bluie West Two, Army Base, in Ikatez Fjord on the 17th, unloading supplies and disembarking passengers.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USN/ships/tande/WPG/wpg59.html (2821 words)

	Bluie West One (BW-1)
		First off, Bluie West One (BW-1) was located on the SW coast of Greenland, near the Eskimo village of Narsarsuaq.
		There was also a Bluie West Eight (BW-8), located farther north.
		Traeder's Crash at Bluie West: 43-39085 - 29 Dec 1944.
	www.398th.org /History_Personal/Contributions/Traeder_BluieWest.html (779 words)

	THE LOST SQUADRON AND COMANCHE BAY
		Bluie West Eight at Sondrestrom Fjord was built about 35 miles north of the Arctic Circle, where the COMANCE broke ice for the USAT Munargo to permit construction on 7 October 1941.
		Bluie East Two was built at the base of Ikateq Mountain near the east coast village of Amagssalik.
		Thus, the stage was set for the first ferry flight through Bluie West Eight, and the pilots were on their own to locate the proper entrance.
	www.jacksjoint.com /lost_squadron_and_comanche_bay.htm (2342 words)

	Travel Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Bluie West One-1950-51, Harold D. macking, 23:42:20, 6/27/99
		Bluie West 1 1950-51, Roger Bowen, 23:42:08, 9/25/99, (#3)
		Bluie West One - Narsarssuak, John Stott, 15:40:06, 9/27/99, (#4)
	www.greenland.com /forum/guestbook/91.html (393 words)

	Mohawk, WPG-78 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		As part of the Greenland Patrol, the Mohawk was standing down the west coast of Greenland, in Davis Strait on 1 May 1942 en route to Godthaab from Sondre Stromfjord with the cutter Raritan, which had lost her propeller breaking ice in tow.
		She proceeded to Bluie West One at reduced speed, furnishing local weather and ice information to six amphibious planes on patrol en route.
		She departed Bluie West One on 1 June 1942 to rendezvous with the SS Julius Thomsen and escorted her to Boston, arriving there on the 9th.
	www.uscg.mil /hq/g-cp/history/Mohawk_WPG_78.html (5032 words)

	John W. Holmes, 64th Troop Carrier Group
		On the way from Goose Bay to Bluie West One, around 100 miles south of Greenland, we sighted an iceberg just ahead of us.
		After we arrived at Bluie West 1 in Greenland, the entire crew climbed 5,000 feet of a mountain there.
		When we departed from Narsarssuaq or Bluie West 1 (61°11 N 45°25 W), we flew across the ice cap to Iceland.
	www.firebirds.org /menu1/holmes9.html (747 words)

	THE BOLERO MISSION
		FG was ordered back to their base in California to help defend the West Coast should the Japanese offensive succeed in their palns to smash the US Pacific Fleet.
		On June 6th the news arrived that the Japanese Forces were in retreat and had lost four aircraft carriers, so the group was ordered to return to Maine and prepare again for the Bolero mission.
		As a final punctuation mark to Bolero, the equipment for Bluie West 8 was destroyed by German submarine and plans to make it a permanent base were abandoned as the winter set in.
	www.geocities.com /amyjo1.geo/bolero.html (983 words)

	Glenn M. Lashbrook - Wartime Diary
		Left Goose Bay for Bluie West One on Greenland.
		Shot one sun line, the only celestial work on the whole trip, the rest DR from a flight plan with use of radio beams for course corrections.
		Arrived at Bluie West One, a small field at the end of a fjord, and all the enlisted men crowded into the nose for a good look.
	www.100thbg.com /mainpages/history/history4/lashbrook1.htm (919 words)

	My Gal Sal - History
		An alternate field at the head of Sondrestrom Fjord (66.59'N 50.40'W) was called Bluie West Eight (BW-8) located approximately 35-miles north of the Arctic Circle.
		Bernt Balchen was given the responsibility of supervising the building of Bluie West 8.
		Balchen, an expert arctic survivalist, pilot, and former member of the famed Byrd Antarctic and Amundsen / Lincoln-Ellsworth expeditions,utilized Consolidated PBY Amphibian planes, a Noorduyn Norseman C-64 and dog sleds to rescue downed pilots and crews from the icecap.
	www.ultimatesacrifice.com /my_gal_sal_history.htm (1958 words)

	greenland_text.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		All that remains of the Bluie West One is the airstrip and the chimney stack of the hospital and the only evidence that this was a flourishing community is found in the museum.
		Regardless of who discovered the great west land, since Columbous visited Iceland as a boy he would have undoubtably heard the stories of the Irish Monks and Lief the Lucky.
		He knew there was a great west land all he had to do was find it.
	www.scazz-and-megg.com /snmweb_greenland/greenland.htm (1389 words)

	HyperWar: US Army in WWII: Chief of Staff: Prewar Plans and Preparations::Chapter 14
		All three of these essential bastions of America's outer defenses were comfortably distant from the west coast (from Dutch Harbor to Seattle is 1,707 sea miles, from Honolulu to San Francisco 2,091, from Panama to Los Angeles 2,913).
		The threat of a raid on either of the other two points of the American defensive triangle in the west was entirely different in both respects: it was logistically practicable, and strategically attractive to an enemy.
		Until 1940 the defensive screen that the Alaska-Oahu-Panama triangle afforded to the west coast states had no such well-developed counterpart off the east coast even in contemplation, for the installations at Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands then existing were designed primarily to protect the Panama Canal rather than the United States itself.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USA/USA-WD-Plans/USA-WD-Plans-14.html (16802 words)

	Northern- Southern route experiences
		Specifically flying into Bluie West one on the tip of Greenland.
		West Africa, then to Forteleza, Brazil, then Georgetown, BR Guiana, Borinquen AAF, Puerto Rico, and Savannah GA.
		Deano - Here is Sheet 1 (of two) from the North Atlantic Pilot's Handbook which shows the approach and other data for Bluie West One.
	www.armyairforces.com /forum/m_67936/tm.htm (3970 words)

	Tuesday, Greenland Flight, Martin B-26 Marauder
		By 1030 hours most of the planes with a clearance had taken to the air en route to Narsarssuak, Air Base, officially was known as Bluie West One.
		Captain Ben Ostlind was assigned to lead a flight of 552nd Squadron planes to Iceland, the weather appeared to alright as they took off and flew out of the fjord at BW-1.
		Major Charles Lockhart, 552nd Squadron Commander, recalled a very tragic occurrence which happened after a few crews had left Bluie West 1, Greenland: A number of 386th aircraft were waiting for a weather clearance to fly the next leg to Keflavik, Iceland.
	www.b26.com /historian/chester_klier/bluie_west_one.htm (2992 words)

	Flight Across the Atlantic. B-17s guide P-38s to Greenland, Iceland, Scotland and World War II.
		There were quicker ways to get there, Newfoundland/Azores or Bermuda/Azores for examples but the Army in its wisdom decided to give their green crews a longer but safer route to deliver their airplanes, not to mention valuable flight time.
		One of these was located on its southwestern tip, another on its west coast and one was located over on the east coast of Greenland.
		One of those made it into Bluie West-8 further up the west coast of Greenland and the other two ditched at sea though the crews were rescued.
	www.daileyint.com /flying/flywar4.htm (7614 words)

	T/SGT. FREDERICK CHESTER BRADLEY, JR. Engineer / Top Turret Gunner Howard F. Traeder Crew, 398th BG, 601st SQ by Lee ...
		They then took off on their next leg to Bluie West One in Greenland, an airbase situated at the end of a fjord near Narsarssuak.
		In order to land, planes had to fly fifty miles up the fjord which has mountains looming on both sides… it was a tricky situation in the best of weather conditions.
		See an image of the burning aircraft at Traeder's Crash at Bluie West and also the story Bluie West One (BW-1) by Howard Traeder, Pilot.
	www.398th.org /History_Personal/Contributions/Bradley_History.html (1806 words)

	Back to basics: hunting and gathering in modern Greenland, 1998
		Until recently, the U.S. also maintained a large military presence at two Greenland airports, called Bluie West Eight in Kangerlussuaq in central Greenland, near Sisimiut, and Bluie West One, in southern Greenland, at Narsasuaq.
		On clear days on Greenland's west Coast, I would look inland to far-off, treeless mountains and feel like they were within arm's reach, when some were as far away as 40 miles.
		A traditional seal-skin tent, used for centuries by the island's Inuit residents, is on display in the west coast city Sisimiut.
	www.rudyfoto.com /grl/fjordstory.html (3704 words)

	B-24 Liberator: Roger the Lodger, Crew Photos
		Greenland seldom had clear weather so they told us we probably would have to get under the clouds and that meant flying on the deck a long ways up this fjord (Narsarsuaq, code-named "Bluie West One" in WWII, is about 45 miles up the fjord!--see right).
		Narsarsuaq or "Bluie West One", with mountain at end of runway.
		There is a museum in Narsarsuaq, maintained by Soeren Svendsen, with collection of photos and stories, showing the history of Bluie West One from 1941 - 1958.
	www.alaska.net /~fritzf/B24/B24_crewstories.htm (1826 words)

	Bluie West One (Monograph 76) Description
		This is the story of the building of that airbase—codenamed Bluie West One—by 2nd Lt. William Kray, a member of the 3rd Battalion, 21st Aviation Engineer Regiment, which was tasked with building the base.
		The trials and tribulations of unloading the ships bringing the supplies and materiel was a mission in itself.
		After Bluie West he was sent to England where he helped build an airbase for the Eighth Air Force at Stansted Mt. Fitchett which is now the third airport for London.
	www.merriam-press.com /mono_200/m076.htm (762 words)

	PPINE -- A pilot's journal: The bookshelf
		I make it a point to re-read ‘Fate’ every year and even though I know much of it by heart the experience never gets old.
		Thanks to Gann there’s a small part of me on every flight that’s flying the Fjord to Bluie West One.
		I’d argue that Lindbergh pushing on in the miserable conditions described in ‘North to the Orient’, or Gann guessing that he was in the right Fjord to arrive at Bluie West One were reckless, yet they’re held up as heroes.
	home.comcast.net /~w.outlaw/ppine/2005/11/bookshelf.html (866 words)

	Flying, The Autobiography of John H. Meierdierck, Lt. Col. USAF (Ret)
		A "Mae West" life jacket backpack parachute, one-man life raft packed with jungle and water survival equipment, crash helmet, oxygen mask, a 45 cal. pistol secure in its holster, goggles and a pair of gloves, were his equipment.
		You guessed it, I would fall asleep at the controls but, the slightest change in noise would awaken me and I would be all over the cockpit to find out where I was and in what attitude the plane was in.
		On the return trip we all landed at Goose Bay Labrador and then at Bluie West One to refuel and spend the night.
	www.roadrunnersinternationale.com /image/meierdierck/flying.html (14706 words)

	VPNAVY - VPB-6 History Summary Page - VP Patrol Squadron
		On Aug. 6, 1943, Patrol Bombing Squadron 6, a Navy unit manned entirely by Coast Guardsmen, began operating from BLUIE West 1 and Argentia.
		Bombing 6, commanded by Coast Guard CDR D.B. McDiarmid, was to earn a reputation as one of the busiest and most effective in Coast Guard aviation history.
		The little ship had been disabled by a damaged shaft bearing in a storm on the North Atlantic convoy run a month earlier, and its radio had burned out; the Strathella's crew had almost died of thirst and starvation.
	www.vpnavy.com /vp6cg_history.html (2205 words)

	LCDR Poole's Phot Ops.Untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Part of a project involving over 3,000 films gathered during my tours with the Foreign Service in Europe and Africa.
		VP93 Radio gang atop the mountain overlooking the Bluie West One seaplane base in southern Greenland.
		A few free moments atop the mountain overlooking Bluie West One seaplane base, contemplating the last flight and wondering what's next.
	home.neo.rr.com /vp93/vp93_earlyyears/vp93_earlyyears_photops1.html (89 words)

	SeaWaves Magazine
		He also proposes a French raid on the British colony of Sierra Leone in West Africa and a bombing assault on Gibraltar
		Another torpedo fired at 0302 missed and the vessel only sunk after a coup de grâce was fired five minutes later
		One struck at the bridge and the other aft, causing the tanker to immediately burst into flames from bridge forward.
	www.seawaves.com /newsletters/today_in_history.htm (3315 words)

	James A. Moran - 17th TCS Diary WWII
		We take off on schedule, into a heavily overcast sky.
		BW-1 (Bluie West One) Narsarssuak Air Base (modern name Narsarsuaq), Greenland.
		We locate Greenland as scheduled, and begin the ticklish 60-mile flight up Tunugdliarfik Fjord to the base.
	www.firebirds.org /menu1/moranp_4.htm (676 words)

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