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| Keywords: Weather Station Kurt.JPG Weather Station Kurt officially Wetter-Funkgerät Land-26 a weather station erected by a German U-boat crew in northern Labrador now part of Newfoundland and Labrador Canada in 1943 The installation of Weather Station Kurt was the only armed German military operation on land in North America during the Second World War The station was forgotten for many years until the late 1970s when a retired Siemens engineer named Franz Selinger who was writing a history went through Sommermeyer's papers and learned of the station's existence He contacted Canadian Department of National Defence historian W A B Douglas who went with a team in 1981 and found the station still largely intact Weather Station Kurt was brought to Ottawa and is now on display at the Canadian War Museum Personal photograph by SimonP 18 48 31 October 2007 UTC SimonP en Image Weather_Station_Kurt JPG en pEnglish Wikipedia SimonP Equipment of World War II Weather stations in Canada Labrador New Canadian War Museum building | ||||
