Mop-Up In Greenland
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Mop-Up In Greenland

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Photograph

Mop-Up In Greenland

1944
Gelatin silver print
19.4 x 24.0 cm.
Museum accession
Inscriptions verso-(printed) "3505" "From: Public Relations Division U.S. Coast
Guard Washington, D.C." "(One of the Coast Guard's Ten Best Photos of
1944)" "Mop-Up In Greenland - The Coast Guard Smashes A Nazi Weather
Base, Captures 12" "A file of bewildered Germans is under the guns of
Coast Guardsmen who landed from a combat cutter and captured a Nazi
radio-weather station on the Northeast coast of Greenland. The Germans
showed no sigh of fight and surrendered. Radio and weather equipment
and supplies were seized. A short time after, two Coast Guard combat..
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