How Greenland's Dog-Sled Patrol Became Unsung Heroes of World War II

How Greenland's Dog-Sled Patrol Became Unsung Heroes of World War II

It’s fall 1941, and World War II is underway. More than a dozen patrolmen have begun moving up and down the northeast coast of Greenland in groups, traversing the icy, snowy expanse on sleds pulled by a team of husky-like dogs. They’re scouring the largely uninhabited region for secret German weather stations. They’re part of the North-East Greenland Sledge Patrol, a crack team assembled as part of a largely forgotten, but essential, mission dur…