Hundreds of sled dogs were pressed into duty during WWII for search and rescue missions throughout Greenland, Canada and Alaska. But they also saw duty on the Western Front in one of the least-known stories of sled dog heroics that involved one of the most amazing adventurers Wintergreen has ever had the honor of being [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Alaska’
It’s Raining Cats & Sled Dogs!
Posted by brucegs13 on July 7th, 2010
Posted in The Arctic, The Dogs, The Tales 
Tags: Alaska, Arctic, Battle of the Bulge, Canada, France, German Army, Greenland, musher, Newfoundland, Norman Vaughan, parachutes, Section Eight, Sled Dogs, Toul, US Army, War Dogs, World War II, WWII 
2 Comments »Wintergreen’s Adventure Diplomacy Expedition Commemorated in Anchorage
Posted by brucegs13 on June 1st, 2010
When we dogsledded and skied from Siberia to Alaska 20 years ago in our effort to help re-open the U.S.-Soviet border in the Bering Strait, little did we know that the project would someday be memorialized in a very unusual way. But this week we got a call from Alaska Airlines to tell us that [...]
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