mccook --
Thanks for your clarification and the opportunity to post an answer to
your fascinating question.
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Now, as I was saying, I am confident that I have found the explanation
you are seeking regarding the "Greenland Pool." I believe that your
friend was referring to the "Greenland Patrol," a World War II
operation that is described in a Coast Guard history site as follows:
"In 1940, most Americans who knew that Greenland existed thought of it
as a nondescript white blob near the tops of their world maps. That
the place might have any military significance to the great powers had
occurred to scarcely anyone - least of all to the people who lived
there. But in the next five years Greenland was to become a small but
significant theater of war, and was to confront the U.S. Coast Guard
with some of the most arduous duties it had ever been called upon to
perform."
U.S. Coast Guard: "The Coast Guard and the Greenland Patrol"
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/h_greenld.html
There is a substantial amount of other online information about this
operation, which you can browse through using the following simple
Google search:
"coast guard" "greenland patrol"
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22coast+guard%22++%22greenland+patrol%22&btnG=Google+Search
I would just point you here to one other source that might be of
particular interest in connection with your article. That source,
which is also available at the Coast Guard's website, is titled "Death
of a Wooden Shoe: A Sailor’s Diary of Life and Death on the Greenland
Patrol, 1942", by Thaddeus D. Novak, edited by P.J. Capelotti. The
editor of that diary writes in his introduction:
"The diary that follows is one of the few first-hand accounts that
survives from the early crisis period of the Greenland Patrol, and the
only such first-hand account from the perspective of an involved young
enlisted seaman. Therefore, it occupies a unique place in the history
of the U.S. Coast Guard, of U.S. naval operations in the Arctic, and
of the Second World War."
U.S. Coast Guard: Death of a Wooden Shoe
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/WoodenShoe.html#September%201942
Search Strategy:
I naturally began with a variety of Google searches using as terms
various combinations of the clues you provided in your question: 1942,
"Greenland Pool", "Coast Guard" WWII, etc. None of them turned up
anything useful, and I decided to eliminate the word "pool" as a
search term on the basis that it was the most likely of the clues to
have been misheard or misremembered. That led quickly to the
following successful search, which turned up my first citation above
as its first "hit:"
"coast guard" 1942 greenland
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22coast+guard%22+1942+greenland
Then another, more focessed search (also cited above) turned up
information almost exclusively limited to the Greenland Patrol
operation:
"coast guard" "greenland patrol"
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22coast+guard%22++%22greenland+patrol%22&btnG=Google+Search
Thanks again for the opportunity to answer your question and good luck
with your article.
markj-ga |
