Bluie was the United States military code name for Greenland during World War II. It is remembered by the numbered sequence of base locations identified...

stations at Narsarsuaq Airport (Bluie West-1), Sondrestrom Air Base (Bluie West-8), Ikateq (Bluie East Two), and Gronnedal (Bluie West-9). In 1943 the Army...

Bluie West One, later known as Narsarsuaq Air Base and Narsarsuaq Airport, was built on a glacial moraine at what is now the village of Narsarsuaq, near...

Howard "Louie Bluie" Armstrong (March 4, 1909 – July 30, 2003) was an American string band and country blues musician, who played fiddle, mandolin, and...

Sondrestrom Air Base, originally Bluie West-8, was a United States Air Force base in central Greenland. The site is located 60 mi (97 km) north of the...

Bluie East Two was a minor United States Army Air Forces airfield at Ikateq in eastern Greenland. It was operational from 1942 to 1947. After the United...

Australia Bluey Day Foundation, a defunct Australian charity Bluie, codename for Greenland Louie Bluie (1909–2003), U.S. musician All pages with titles beginning...

a weather station founded by the US during World War II under the name Bluie East One. The task of the weather station was to ensure that the shipping...

American settlement during and after World War II, when the site was known as Bluie West-8 and then Sondrestrom Air Base. The Kangerlussuaq area is also home...

Aasiaat (Greenlandic pronunciation: [aːsiaːt]) or Ausiait, formerly Egedesminde, is a town in the Qeqertalik municipality in western Greenland, located...

66°03′N 53°36′W / 66.050°N 53.600°W / 66.050; -53.600 (Bluie West 9) on Simiutak Island. Bluie List of islands of Greenland Wikimedia Commons has media...

the United States built an air base at Narsarsuaq code-named Bluie West One (BW1). (Bluie was the Allied military code name for Greenland.) Thousands of...

first garnered attention for his work in documentary filmmaking with Louie Bluie (1985) and Crumb (1995). After Crumb, Zwigoff moved on to write and direct...

II, the United States military used Bluie as a code name for Greenland, where they kept several bases named "Bluie (East or West) (sequential numeral)"...

Frobisher to Bluie West Eight and Bluie East Two in Greenland, rejoining the main route in Iceland. The later success of the main air route via Bluie West One...

the code name used for the Eskimonæs Station by the US Coast Guard was 'Bluie East Five' — the same code name would be later used for Myggbukta after...

Bluie West 7 or Grondal was a major U.S. naval operating facility (naval base) near Ivigtut in Arsuk Fjord, Greenland. In some form, it was in operation...

military forces had a radio, weather, and sledge patrol station called "Bluie East Four" on the island. In 1971 a meteorite was found on Ella Island,...

Qaanaaq Thule Avannaata 16 505 Kangaatsiaq — Qeqertalik 17 460 Kangerlussuaq Bluie West-8 Søndre Strømfjord Sondrestrom Qeqqata 18 436 Kullorsuaq — Avannaata...

aircraft landing in January 1942. During World War II, the airbase−codenamed Bluie West One−hosted squadrons of PBY Catalina flying boats and B-25 Mitchell...

War and after Simiutak was the site of a U.S. Navy facility code-named 'Bluie West 3'. Simiutaq is located south of the mouth of the Ikersuaq fjord in...

Greenland. It was operational from 1942 to 1945. The station was referred to as Bluie West Four (BW-4) in the USAAF, and as "Teague Field" by many. The location...

at Goose Bay. The second stop was a rough airstrip in Greenland called Bluie West One, and the third refueling stop was in Iceland at Keflavik. Other...

first aircraft in shuttling between Westover. Goose Bay, Bluie West-1, Bluie West-8, and Bluie West-6 (Thule) for the purpose of laying down Arctic kits...

Greenland, code-named Bluie West I began. Greenland Base Command (GBC) was established on 1 September 1941 with headquarters at Bluie West I to take charge...

followed by Narsarsuaq Airport in 1942 (and now-abandoned USAAF airfields Bluie East Two and Marrak Point, both in 1942) and Pituffik Space Base in 1953...

Some of these buildings still stood in 1953, contemporaneous with the Bluie West One airfield at Narsarsuaq, but today they exist mostly as depressions...

Ivigtut. The American bases and stations were codenamed under the Bluie West and Bluie East moniker. President Franklin D. Roosevelt took a strong personal...

airports. The airports were codenamed as Bluie West One through to Bluie West Eight on the west of the island and Bluie East One to Blue East Four on the eastern...

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