Newell D. "Newt" Moy, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Benjamin Bahlmann, November 2, 2002: Saving the Legacy tape no. 630

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EWELLD.MOY 2 2002 1 ft and tarted up that. Ju ta we came around that, we got back in radi c ntact with the tower there at Greenland. They advi ed u that the weather condition wer below minimum and we'd have to abort the approach. Well, at that time, there wa a half-unken freighter sitting there in the fjord about thirty miles out from the ba e and I told them we had a positive approach from that freighter. From there on in wa pretty much a straight drive. We could just watch the rocks to the left and come in. I told them we had no alternative to go on in, which we did. The weather had just closed down the whole fjord. The good Lord was looking out for us on that flight. I wrote it up to be published someplace, A Flight Never To Be Forgotten. [Editor's note: This story was copied from the 398th. org website in 2008: "A Flight Never to be Forgotten" by Newell (Newt) Moy, pilot, 603rd Squadron, November 2003. In January 1945, on a flight from Dow Field in Maine to Goose Bay, Labrador, we had a malfunction of the fuel valve on the outer right wing fuel tank (Tokyo). The valve was not repairable at Goose Bay, which resulted in our inability to take on a full fuel load for a non-stop flight to Iceland. As a result we had to make shorter flights to Greenland, Iceland, and Scotland. When we were briefed on our flight to Greenland, we were shown photos of the entrance to three fjords. The center fjord would lead us 50 miles into the mountains where the airfield (Bluie West 1) was located. This was in January when there were only a couple of hours of daylight, so we had to arrive at the entrance to the fjord at sunup for a visual flight into the fjord to the airfield. On our flight from Goose Bay, over the Davis Strait to Greenland, we were over an under cast and could not see the Greenland coastline for a visual fix on the entrance to 87