The mission remained following the war in order to deal with the withdrawal of American troops, negotiate a 99 year lease for a Canadian military airbase at Goose Bay and, ultimately, to negotiate Newfoundland's entry into Canadian Confederation following the 1948 Newfoundland referendums.
CFB Goose Bay, a Canadian Forces Base located in Happy Valley – Goose Bay
CFB Goose Bay, a Canadian Forces Base in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador (IATA: YYR)
He even travelled to London to attend negotiations for the Leased Bases Agreement, which granted the United States 99-year leases to military bases in Stephenville, Pleasantville, Goose Bay, Argentia etc.
On a typical RB-47H reconnaissance mission covering 5,984 mi (9,360 km), the aircraft would fly from Thule, Greenland to the Kara Sea to Murmansk and then return only to find Thule weathered-in, forcing the flight from the air-refueling/decision point near the northeast shore of Greenland to one of three equidistant alternates: Goose Bay, Labrador, London, or Fairbanks, Alaska.
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On May 29, 1942, after stopping in Tealing, Prestwick, Reykjavík, and Goose Bay, the Petlyakov Pe-8 plane with the Soviet delegation on board landed in Washington.