WAR BELOW ZERO

by Major Corey Ford,19—, with Col. Bemt Balchen & MajorOliver Lafarge. Houghton Mifflin Co., 1944,127 pages, $2.00.

This is the story of the Army Air Forces' battle for the vital Far Northeast (Greenland).

Now it can be told that the Nazis established a foothold on this side of the Atlantic. Their planes were actually flying within bombing distance of the shores of North America. Their U-boats, refuelling in Greenland's fjords, were striking at our convoys to England and Murmansk. Their weather station, on the island's undefended east coast, was in daily contact with Berlin.

This book tells of our secret war in Greenland against the Nazis waged in semi-darkness north of the Arctic Circle, on a remote battlefield locked perpetually under 10,000 feet of solid ice. It was a war for weather.

It all began in 1941, months before Pearl Harbor, when Colonel Bernt Balchen commanded an expedition under secret orders to make Greenland ours. An Army Air Force base was established on the west coast of Greenland, the northern most American air base in the world.

This book tells graphically and simply of the war fifty degrees below zero where there may be only one air field in hundreds of miles and where the pilot must be sharply alert if he wants to survive. It is worth your time: a tale of courage, fortitude and ingenuity. The story will make you proud of your citizenship.