The nuclear-armed B-52 that crashed in January 1968 was secretly monitoring the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) site at Thule Air Base, Greenland, pictured here in November 1961. (NARA Still Picture Unit, RG 342B, box 1452)
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