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- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base abstract "For the civil use of the facility after 1958, see: Narsarsuaq AirportBluie West One airfield, later known as Narsarsuaq Air Base and Narsarsuaq Airport, was built on a glacial moraine at what is now the village of Narsarsuaq, near the southern tip of Greenland. Construction by the U.S. Army began in June 1941 with the Army's Greenland force consisting of a battalion of the 21st Engineers (AVN), less one company, reinforced by a composite battery from the 62d Coast Artillery (AA) landed from USS Munargo and USAT Chateau Thierry in July 1941.The first aircraft landed there in January 1942, as a link in the North Atlantic air ferry route in World War II. The base had a peak population of about 4,000 American servicemen, and it is estimated that some 10,000 aircraft landed there en-route to the war in Europe and North Africa.Soon after the United States entered the war, the War Department decided to deploy Major General Carl Spaatz's Eighth Air Force to Britain, putting the North Atlantic ferry route facilities constructed by the Corps to an early test.Radioing from Bluie West 1, while crossing the Atlantic in mid-June 1942, Spaatz ordered the movement to begin. The P-38 and P-39 fighters, piloted by combat crews that had been given special training in long-distance flying, were escorted by the longer-range B-17 bombers.With stops at the Canadian-built base at Goose Bay in Labrador, Bluie West 1 in Southern Greenland, and Reykjavik or Keflavik in Iceland, the aircraft could fly from the new Presque Isle field in northern Maine to Prestwick Airport in Scotland with no leg of the journey longer than 850 mi (740 nmi; 1,370 km).Other important bases in Greenland were Bluie West Eight near the present-day town of Kangerlussuaq, and Bluie East One on the almost-uninhabited east coast.Bad weather is frequent in Southern Greenland, and Narsarsuaq is virtually surrounded by high mountains, making the approach to the steel-mat runway exceedingly difficult. The usual approach was a low-level flight up a fjord. Because the runway slopes up west to east, landings were (and still are predominantly) made to the east, with take-offs to the west, regardless of the wind direction.BW-1's importance declined post WWII, but the U.S. Air Force maintained it as Narsarsuaq Air Base during the early Cold War years, when it served as a refuelling station for jet fighters and for helicopters crossing the North Atlantic. The runway by this time had been paved with concrete. Jets require a longer take-off run than do propeller-driven aircraft, and the air base used a small tugboat to move icebergs out of the way of planes taking off over the basin west of the runway. There is a detailed account of a visit to BW-1 in the early days of World War II by Ernest K. Gann, in the book Fate Is The Hunter.The advent of aerial refueling, and the opening of the larger Thule Air Base in northern Greenland, made the base redundant, and it was turned over to the Danish government of Greenland in 1958. Today it is Narsarsuaq Airport and served by regular flights from Reykjavík, Iceland during the summer season, as well as by commuter aircraft from Kangerlussaq and other Greenlandic airfields. There is no control tower, and a 4,000 ft (1,200 m) ceiling is advised, even for an approach on instruments.".
- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base elevation "34.0".
- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base elevation "34.1376".
- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base iataLocationIdentifier "UAK".
- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base icaoLocationIdentifier "BGBW".
- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base location Greenland.
- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base location Narsarsuaq.
- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base runwayDesignation "07/25".
- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base runwayDesignation "17/35".
- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base runwayLength "1300.0".
- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base runwayLength "1310.64".
- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base runwayLength "1828.8".
- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base runwayLength "1835.0".
- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base runwaySurface "concrete".
- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base runwaySurface "gravel - disused".
- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base thumbnail NarsarssuakAB-Greenland-1942.jpg?width=300.
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- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base wikiPageWikiLink Category:1942_establishments_in_Greenland.
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- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base wikiPageWikiLink Reykjavík.
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- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base wikiPageWikiLink Sondrestrom_Air_Base.
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- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base wikiPageWikiLink Tugboat.
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- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base wikiPageWikiLink File:51st_Rescue_Squadron_SB-17s_Narsarsuaq_Air_Base_Greenland.jpg.
- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base wikiPageWikiLink File:C-123s_1956.jpg.
- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base wikiPageWikiLink File:Canadian_F-86s_at_Narsarssuak_1956.jpg.
- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base wikiPageWikiLinkText "Bluie West 1".
- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base wikiPageWikiLinkText "Bluie West I".
- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base wikiPageWikiLinkText "Bluie West One".
- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base wikiPageWikiLinkText "Bluie West-1".
- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base wikiPageWikiLinkText "Narsarssuak Air Base".
- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base wikiPageWikiLinkText "Narsarsuaq Air Base".
- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base wikiPageWikiLinkText "Narsarsuaq".
- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base built "1942".
- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base caption "Bluie West One, June 1942".
- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base caption "Narsarssuak Air Base 1956".
- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base elevationF "112".
- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base elevationM "34".
- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base iata "UAK".
- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base icao "BGBW".
- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base image "NarsarssuakAB1956.jpg".
- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base latd "61".
- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base latm "9".
- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base latns "N".
- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base lats "38.29".
- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base location "Narsarsuaq, near the southern tip of Greenland".
- Narsarsuaq_Air_Base longd "45".