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Maintenance of Strategic Air Command (SAC) B-36D in a hangar at Thule Air Force Base, Greenland.

Strategic Air Command (SAC) B-36D aircraft of the 6th Bomb Wing, being pushed by a tug into hangar at Thule Air Force Base, Greenland. Maintenance crews walk on wings and erect maintenance stands to facilitate maintenance work on Convair B-36D in hangar.

Date: 1953, October 27
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032433
Teletype machine in operation in message room of Thule Air Force Base, Greenland.

A teletype machine in operation in message room. Several machines operating in message room of Thule Air Force Base, Greenland.

Date: 1953, October
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032436
Interior of Convair B-36 aircraft on Thule Air Force Base, Greenland.

Several B-36s of U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC), 6th Bomb Wing parked in snow at Thule Air Force Base, Greenland. Interior of B-36, with warmly dressed crewman using traversing sight. Radio operator sending message by morse code.

Date: 1953, October 27
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032434
C-54 Skymaster being loaded with gas, blasting powder and other supplies for Nord Station at Thule Air Base, Greenland.

Board of 'Thule Air Base Greenland' over building at Thule Air Base. C-54 Skymaster being loaded with gas, blasting powder and other supplies for Nord Station in Greenland. C-54 Skymaster takes off from Thule Air Base. View of snow covered peaks and rivers on ground. C-54 Skymaster lands at Nord Station in Greenland. Goods unloaded from the aircraft and gas pumped into tanks.

Date: 1954
Duration: 5 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022829
The SA-16 Albatross aircraft stationed near the base operations building at the Thule Air Base in Greenland.

The exercise wind chill at Thule Air Base in Greenland. The board on the building reads 'Thule Air Base Greenland Base Operations'. View of the base operations building. The United States Air Force SA-16 Albatross aircraft stationed on the air base.

Date: 1954, March 19
Duration: 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675067104
U.S. Paratroopers jump from aircraft and build ice shelters in Greenland during "Exercise Arctic Night."

U.S. paratroops of the 82nd Airborne Division participate in joint Army-Air Force "Operation Arctic Night."conducted from 2-13-1956 to 3-14-1956, in Greenland. With ambient temperatures of minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit, Paratroopers in Arctic parkas, with their parachutes underneath, are so burdened that they waddle like penguins as they board waiting C-124 aircraft, at Thule Air Force Base, Greenland. Sign erected in snow reads: 'North Pole, 802 Miles, Fort Bragg, N.C. Home of 82nd Airborne 3500 Miles'. Troops seated inside C-124 aircraft. A flight of three large Douglas C-124C Globemaster aircraft, in formation, carries the entire group of 700 paratroopers, who make a mass jump from the aircraft to land on the Greenland icecap. Parachutes billowing as troopers land on the ice. They assist one another as they land. The paratroopers dig snow shelters and build shelters with ice blocks on the icecap.

Date: 1956, March
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046951