One of his stories was invading Greenland during WWII.
He claims it was the first Allied invasion.
Any way, they storm ashore to hit a German radio/weather station, the they were greeted by the handful of Germans as rescuers, have been unsupplied in quite a while.
The Germans were taken to the Naval prison in Portsmouth, NH.
Apparently, there were a small number of German stations on the Greenland coast, and my neighbor was only involved in shutting down one of them.
Cool.
My Dad went there for 30 days at a time while stationed at Elmendorf AFB, AK. I think he had 3 months EAFB/1 month Sonderstrom for a while.
I have his slide collection and will begin scanning it into digital pics. Looking forward to finding the ones from an unplanned trip to Greenland: a C-130 suffered an in-flight engine separation and had to land on the icecap. An AF crew was put together and taken to repair in place.