THULE AIR BASE - GREENLAND
Trump is
talking about buying Greenland. He is saying
that to distract from his trouble with the economic downturn. He would like people to think it has to do
with national security: a place for a future military base. Actually, we already have an Air Force base
in Thule, Greenland; and have had that base since the 1940’s
I am retired
Navy. During the early sixties I was
attached to the anti-submarine warfare squadron VP-26 out of Brunswick, Maine.
I flew as a Combat Air Crew member of Crew-4, on a P2V
- Neptune bombers.
We blanketing the
North Atlantic, searching for Soviet submarines and tracking surface
shipping.
A few years
before I was attached to VP-26, a sister squadron lost an aircraft with seven
crew members somewhere on the Greenland icecap.
All of the VP squadrons from Brunswick and the Air Force squadrons out of Thule searched
for weeks, but never found the downed aircraft and crew.
Somewhere,
frozen into the ice cap of Greenland, is a U.S. Navy P2V-Neptune bomber with
seven crew members. As the ice melts
back, perhaps someday we can recover my brothers in flight.
That is what
I think of, when I think of Greenland.
the
Ol’Buzzard
That's a sombre memory. I hope they find the plane someday.
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