The White Falcon - 17.02.1945, Síða 1

Vol. VII.
ICELAND, Saturday, February 17, 10'/5.
No. 22.
IBC Hq. Releases Further
Details Of Mission Against
ases In Greenland
German Leaders Prepare For
Future War By Urging Mothers
To Produce! Produce! Produce!
While transplanting and
starving the population of
conquered countries, the
German Government has ac-
tually achieved a rise in the
hirths of its own people.
“As Germany’s chances
militarily grow dimmer and
dimmer, her prospects for
coming out-ahead in this war
loom brighter,” says Eugene
Tillinger, writing in the Mil-
waukee Journal. “Few peop-
le are aware that alongside
her regular war, fought with
the usual weapons, Ger-
many is waging a second,
invisible war. This ‘biopolit-
ical Avar,’ as she calls it, con-
sists in the building up of
her own population and the
cutting down of her neigh-
bors’ in the hope of dominat-
ing the continent despite
military defeat.”
Tillinger supports his con-
tention with liberal extracts
from German neAvspapers,
and from the speeches of
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REPORT TELLS OF AIR OPERATIONS FROM
ICELAND WHICH BOMBED OUT ENEMY i
WEATHER BASE IN 1943
The following official account of the wiping out of
German weather observation bases on Greenland was
released for military and civilian publication here this
Aveek by IBC Headquarters:
Fragmentary reports have been received before of what
has been a rather closely guarded military secret—opera-
tions, partly from Iceland, in eliminating German
Aveather observation bases located in Greenland. Fuller
details appeared a little more than a week ago in neAvs-
papers in the U.S., Avhich have iioav arrived here. The
Avliole story covers a period of several months and in-
volves operations against the enemy both by U.S. naval
and military personnel.
Iceland’s importance in war-ime operations in tlie
North Atlantic is again evidenced in an account such as
the one iioav appearing. When the story can he fully told,
more of that significance will appear—such as raids by
Iceland-based aircraft in the sinking of German sub-
marines in the North Atlantic.
The dispatches iioav published in America declare that
four Coast Guard cutters, operating in ice-packed Arctic
waters, smashed a “determined German effort” to cstab-
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Above, the grave of a German officer located at the
weather station at Cape Sussi, Shannon Island, who had
been killed when scouting party was ambushed.
Below, some of the 28 German prisoners of war taken
aboard the USCG “Northland” after they had scuttled
their trawler during a futile attempt to reestablish a radio-
weather station in northeast Greenland.
Famed Novel Comes To
Life In Premieres At
Fldh’se, ARC Club 23
IBC movie-goers tomorr-
oav night will be treated to
another and important
“Hollywood World Premi-
ere” when A TREE GROWS
IN BROOKLYN is. presented
on the AndreAvs .Fieldhouse
screen at 2000 hours and at
ARC Club 23 at 1900 and
2100 hours. Boasting a cast
of capable and Avell-knoAvn
screenland performers, the
film is an adaptation of
Betty Smith’s best-selling
novel. James Dunn, Joan
Blondell, Dorothy McGuire,
Peggy Ann Gardner, Lloyd
Nolan and James Gleason
head the list of players.
A TREE GROWS IN
BROOKLYN relates the
story of the poor Nolan fam-
ily of Brooklyn’s Williams-
burg district and their strug-
gle for a livelihood. Into this
tale are woven numerous de-
lightful characters taken
right from life itself. Natur-
ally, though, some of tlieper-
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TOWNSEND. ON
mm CONTROL
BOARD, HUNGARY
NeAvspapers i n the U.S.
carried the announcement
early this month that Maj.
Gen. William S. Ivey, avIio
left the Iceland Base Com-
mand last December after
being its head for a year-
and-a-half, has been named
chief American represent-
ative on a joint commission
to take over control of
Hungary.
Four U.S. military repres-
entatives have been appoint-
ed to the Allied Control
Commission.
In addition to Maj. Gen.
Key, the following Ameri-
cans will serve on the joint
Soviet-American-British bo-
ard: Col. Qallas S. ToAvns-
end, Col. Frank W. Gilles-
pie, and Capt. William S.
Dietrick of the U.S. Navy.
Lt. Col. Henry G. Simmonite
has been named executive
officer.
Tavo of the Americans on
the commission are, thus,
men avIio have served in Ice-
land, for Col. ToAvnsend left
here only recently, having
served as chief Civil Affairs
officer, succeeding Col.
Lisle.'Word has come from
Gen. Key that both he and
Col. ToAvnsend, and others
in the group, Avere in Italy
recently,aAvaiting departure.
GEN. DUNCAN CROWNS SIX-STRIPER
COLLINS “KING OF FBIs”- HOPES
WAR ENDS BEFORE HE’S
ELIGIBLE FOR SAME
Stating that he hopes that
the war is over long before
he’s eligible to become a
Avearer of six o\rerseas strip-
es, Brig. Gen. Early E. W.
Duncan, Commanding the
IBC, Tuesday night croAvn-
ed Cpl. Nicholas H. Collins,
QM man from Barnwell,
S.C., “King of the FBIs” at
ARC Club 14. Collins lias
served in Iceland since Aug.
7, 1941.
FolloAving the actual
‘‘crowning” of the King, Gen.
Duncan introduced Miss
Arndis SigurSard. Iceland’s
“Pin-up Queen,” avIio imme-
diately gave Collins a big,
smacking kiss. Then, to the
delight of the packed throng
of GIs, the “King” and
“Queen” danced to “People
Will Say We’re In Love.”
A reception was held in
the reading room folloAving
the presentation where Gen.
Duncan Avas the special
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“King of the FBIs,” Cpl,
Nicholas H. Collins, dance
with Iceland’s GI pinup girl,
Miss Arndis SigurSard. of
Reykjavik at Club 14 fol-
loAving his “coronation.”
OUR FORCES —
ALWAYS ALERT