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Pilots shaking a parachute that had become wet from melted snow when they slept on it the night before, they let it freeze then knocked off ice for a dry bed that night, at Thule Air base.
Location:Greenland
Date taken:October 1953
Photographer:George Silk
Size:1280 x 816 pixels (17.8 x 11.3 inches)

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