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...North Pole is a strategic hotspot. Over the ice-capped roof of the world run the shortest air routes from Russia to the U.S. Last week, the general public learned for the first time that Russia is interested in Norway's bleak Spitsbergen archipelago, within the Arctic Circle (Spitsbergen to Pittsburgh: 3,500 miles...
...fast, sleek plywood Orions. They were made by Lockheed, which had been started in 1916 by two barnstorming brothers, Allan and Malcolm Loughead (pronounced Lockheed). Their planes were already famed; Wiley Post had circled the globe in a Vega, Sir Hubert Wilkins flew one over the Arctic Circle to Spitsbergen, the Lindberghs flew a later model, the Sirius, "north to the Orient." But Lockheed's till was empty. In the great pre-depression merger mania, the Loughead brothers sold out to the Detroit Aircraft Corp. Detroit Aircraft soon went broke...
Allied forces landed on inaccessible Spitsbergen two years ago. They destroyed coal mines and evacuated some 3,000 Norwegian and Russian miners. After that censorship closed down around the island at the top of the world...
With last week's raid the rest of Spitsbergen's wartime story was revealed by the Norwegian Government in London...
Using the salvaged lamp, the Norwegians signaled a wandering Catalina of the British Coastal Command, and on June 2 a British force arrived with supplies. The reinforced Norwegians moved against Longyear City. The Germans had gone. Since then drear, desolate Spitsbergen has been in Allied hands...