EP18: Cold War on Ice, Part Three: The IGY and the Icecap
The third installment of this journey into the Arctic with the U.S. Army in the 1950s. This time, we take a trip onto the icecap with fully equipped convoys, trying to prove that the Army was a force to be reckoned with!
This is the official documentary of the first attempts at mechanized travel over the Greenland icecap.
This is an unmodified M29 Weasel painted in “International Orange” and displayed at the U.S. Army Transportation Museum.
The most basic and unmodified version of the Weasel tracked vehicle…hero of the Greenland icecap.
A later (1967) photo of wannigans on a heavy tractor swing. CREDIT: Bill Simmons (http://www.thuleforum.dk/bill_simmons/)