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airhead, with weather-tight barracks, hot and cold running water, electric lights, and other "normal" comforts of life which are totally unexpected in this ice-lockdd land of numbing cold.
Commanding by Colonel Robert W. Humphreys of Wayne, Penn, the men of the Air Force here maintain their unending vigil, standing quand through the long winter night When temperature drops to a mind-numbing 40 below zero and gales spring up without warning, hurtling ferociously across the base with speeds as high as 150 miles an hour.
Under these conditions, just staying alive becomes a major problem. If caught outside, men strive to find the ropes which are strung along all roads to serve as life lines to the nearest building, so they may fight their way to safety against the deadly whip of the arctic wind which can freeze exposed skin in 30 seconds.
These are the conditions at a site which was select dd because of the comparative "mildness" of the weather. On the bleak Ice Cap Itself, temperatures drop to 80 and 90 below zero, and winds go up to 200 miles an hour or more.
This Northeast Air Command defense bastion is located on the West Coast of Greenland, a Danish colony, and is the product of a joint military agreement between Denmark and US under the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Startegically situated on the polar air lanes, the control of which will be a major prize in any future war, it serves as a primary support for the defense of the free nations of the Western Hehisphere.
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