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    coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) The Northwest Staging Route was a series of airstrips, airport and radio ranging stations built...
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    commemorates the shipment of U.S. aircraft to the Soviet Union along the Northwest Staging Route. BM-13N Katyusha on a Lend-Lease Studebaker US6 truck, at the Museum...
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    pilots leaving Great Falls flew along a route of small airfields that became known as the Northwest Staging Route. One of those airfields, Big Delta Army...
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    ALSIB (section Routing)
    Lend-Lease aircraft from the Northwest Staging Route. Aircraft manufactured in the United States were flown over this route for World War II combat service...
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    airport was built to support the Alaska Highway construction and the Northwest Staging Route. Whitehorse International Airport Canada Flight Supplement. Effective...
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  • development of a shorter airway into Russia (see: Northwest Staging Route). In practice, the northern alternate route would suffer from extended darkness and extreme...
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  • enough inland from enemy planes and it linked the airfields of the Northwest Staging Route that conveyed lend-lease aircraft from the United States to the...
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    was the site of a military airfield, established as part of the Northwest Staging Route, which closed in 1968. In 1947, the village of Snag boasted a population...
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    airfield was established here during World War II as part of the Northwest Staging Route. It was operated until 1968, and the withdrawal of military service...
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    a number of new northwest airports, including Prince George, for the support of a new Northwest Staging Route. This new staging route would provide protection...
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    major base for the construction of the Alaska Highway and the Northwest Staging Route. The airport was closed in November 2013. On July 31, 1987, an...
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    ferry route in World War II South Pacific air ferry route in World War II Northwest Staging Route West Coast Wing (Air Transport Command route to Alaska)...
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  • Royal Canadian Air Force in 1942 as part of the system called the Northwest Staging Route. Designated as RCAF Station Whitehorse, it had detachments at Teslin...
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    Frankfurt, Germany (nonstop). The airport was developed as part of the Northwest Staging Route in 1941–42 and has two long paved runways. A wartime-era hangar...
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    while The Northwest Staging Route connected mainland US with Alaska and the Soviet Union via Siberia. The South Pacific air ferry route in World War...
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  • at the north end of Aishihik Lake. The airfield was part of the Northwest Staging Route, but was effectively abandoned in 1968. Since then, the Yukon government...
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    and flew them to Great Falls, Montana and then onward via the Northwest Staging Route through Canada to Alaska, where Soviet ferry pilots, many of them...
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    to the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) in 1942 as part of the Northwest Staging Route under the name of RCAF Station Whitehorse. The base was closed...
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    World War II, becoming a staging point for the U.S. defence of Alaska, as well as a major waypoint of the Northwest Staging Route supplying equipment and...
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    Move") — German naval campaign to sink Arctic convoys Northwest Staging Route — Aviation supply route from North America to Siberia used by Allied forces...
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  • December 1945; transport to Alaska being switched to the former Northwest Staging Route. The introduction of long-distance transports after the war made...
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    Gore Field, Montana, where it would be able to superintend the Northwest Staging Route. As operations expanded, experienced pilots from the 3rd and 6th...
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  • Airfield for Northwest Staging Route Lend-Lease aircraft. Designated Tanacross Air Base, July 1944. Mission was servicing Northwest Staging Route Lend-Lease...
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    Watson and Bradley were instrumental in establishing the ALSIB-Northwest Staging Route to send military aircraft from the United States to the Soviet...
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    state's largest city from 1950 to 1970. During World War II, the Northwest Staging Route passed through Great Falls, along which planes were delivered to...
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    During World War II for northbound Lend-Lease aircraft on the Northwest Staging Route, the flight strip at Northway Army Airfield was the first stop...
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    attempt to discover a commercial sea route north and west around North America. The Northwest Passage represented a new route to the established trading nations...
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    Canol Road (category Roads in the Northwest Territories)
    and development of the Alaska Highway and airfields along the Northwest Staging Route and provision of military bases in Alaska led to a determination...
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    Eielson. Alaska World War II Army Airfields Air Transport Command Northwest Staging Route "Colonel Paul P. Townsend". Archived from the original on 10 April...
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    followed a series of small airfields that became known as the Northwest Staging Route. One of those airfields, Big Delta Airfield, later became Fort...
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