What the visiting journalists weren’t told—nor were many of the soldiers living at the station, which could house up to ...

During an April flight over the Greenland Ice ... were shipped to Thule, another U.S. base (this one above ice)—on the sleds, that trek was a 70-hour trip. Army engineers first dug trenches ...

formerly known as Thule Air Base, is one of the loneliest U.S. military assignments in the world. Built on Arctic permafrost, the base hosts 200 troops in Greenland's far north. Its closest ...

Nuuk, the colorful capital of Greenland Pituffik Space Base, formerly Thule ... from those airports. The U.S. military, which has a large airbase at Thule in northern Greenland, then took fright.

Approximately 100 feet below the surface of Greenland, is a secret American military base which used to be the home of a nuclear missile project. In the 1960s, a secret American military base ...

Even though the sale did not go through, the United States ended up with the military bases it wanted anyway. The U.S. Air Force currently maintains two bases in Greenland, Thule and Sondestrom.

The American president did not wait until the beginning of his second term as head of the United States to raise the purchase proposal of the immense Danish island of Greenland, in the Arctic.