[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-reNRMAsOM&w=560&h=315]

Sur le convoyage via Narsarsuaq: http://220kts.com/ferry-flights/airports/BGBW-narsarsuaq-airport.html

Sur l’aérodrome : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narsarsuaq_Airport

Pendant la seconde guerre mondiale

World War II

The airfield at Narsarsuaq was first built by the American Department of Defense (then known as the War Department) as an army airbase, its construction beginning in July 1941^[2] and the first aircraft landing in January 1942. During World War II the airbase−codenamed Bluie West One−hosted squadrons of PBY Catalina flying boats and B-25 Mitchell bombers with the assignment to escort allied convoys and track and destroy German submarines.

A military hospital with 250 beds was completed in 1943.^[3] Approximately 4,000 people were stationed at the base during the war.^[2] It is estimated that during that time more than 10,000 aircraft were ferried through the airbase. On 6 July 1942 the supply ship « SS Montrose » was wrecked on a cliff in the Tunulliarfik Fjord southwest of the airbase.^[4] The first aircraft from the Danish Air Force stationed at Narsarsuaq was a PBY Catalina in 1947 and a B-17 Flying Fortress in 1948.^[4]