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Newspaper
Manito Community Express
Location
Manito, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1955
Page
5
A Greenland base describes cold, dry winters and cool summers with temperatures around seventy below in winter and around seventy above in summer. The reader notes snow and ice covered terrain, a nearby river, snow capped mountains, and the need for a camera and parka with fur lining and snow shoes.
James Meyer writes from a Greenland base eighteen hundred miles from New York describing barracks with tile doors shared facilities and three closets per room. He notes scenic but cold conditions at Nerwareeeak and Sendrestrom with a lively Aikmans Club a base theatre and a weekend Sneak Show. He details duties tuning receivers to monitor signals and counts a one year term with a possible thirty day leave after five months and asks for letters from friends and news about Manit a.
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