Operation Blue Jay (1953)

Directed by

Lester A. Marks

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

28 min

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary covers the construction of a secret Cold War air base in Greenland. Thousands of workers built a long runway for large bombers.

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What happens

Operation Blue Jay was the code name for the construction of Thule Air Base, which is now known as Pituffik Space Base in Greenland. It started as a secret project, but was made public in September 1952 through Life Magazine. Blue Jay brought 7,000 construction workers to build the secret cold war base. The project built a three-kilometer long runway to service large B-36 Peacemaker and B-47 Stratojet bombers. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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