Merriam Press Military Monograph 76. (Cryolite is a flux used in the refining of aluminum-the only known source in the world), and to act as a rescue station for any Allied planes that encountered trouble along the r.
The Mission for the airBase was to patrol the North Atlantic shipping lanes, to protect the cryolite mines at Ivigtut, Greenland, from German occupation. and Great Britain to build an air Base in Greenland.
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