The last of Hitler’s army to surrender were stationed in a desolate arctic wasteland—a key vantage point in the little-known ...

Camp Century was built to store nukes beneath Greenland's ice. See photos of the underground, "Star Wars"-like site.

Abandoned US military bases The US built airbases and weather stations across the ice sheet during World War II as refueling stops on transatlantic flights and supply routes. Two decommissioned ...

Pituffik Space Base ... abandoned network of subterranean tunnels once operated under the guise of an Arctic research facility before the US government declassified it in 1995. But the abandoned ...

Vice President JD Vance and Usha Vance will visit the US ... But the abandoned military sites represent more than just relics of past global conflicts. Thousands of gallons of biological, chemical, ...

Thule Air Base was renamed Pituffik Space Base in April 2023 to “recognize Greenlandic cultural heritage,” and the site ...

Pituffik is the only U.S. military base on Greenland ... After Nazi Germany occupied Denmark in 1940, Greenland was suddenly isolated and undefended. The United States struck a quiet deal with ...

Arnold High, Priscilla Beaulieu, as she was known at the time, and her friends often “got on a bus that took us in town ... school days in Germany and empathizes with military children.