"Punch" Dickins and the Origin of Canol's Mackenzie Air Fields

Correspondence between the Canadian flyer, C.H. "Punch" Dickins, and government officials in Ottawa during the early summer of 1942 reveals that the United States Army began building an "unauthorized" military air route to Norman Wells . much earlier than the U.S. War Department&...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:ARCTIC
Main Author: Barry, P.S.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1979
Subjects:
Airports
Canol Project
Dickins
C.H
Local history
Military history
Petroleum pipelines
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Mackenzie River region
N.W.T
Yukon
Canol
Mackenzie River
Norman Wells
Arctic
Mackenzie river
Online Access:https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65686
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Summary:Correspondence between the Canadian flyer, C.H. "Punch" Dickins, and government officials in Ottawa during the early summer of 1942 reveals that the United States Army began building an "unauthorized" military air route to Norman Wells . much earlier than the U.S. War Department's official histories admit, and that, although Canada's Cabinet War Committee professedly knew nothing of it, certain Canadian government personnel were privy to the secret. .

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