[3] Besides the weather facility the US military wanted a base from which the warplanes of Operation Bolero that were forced to land on the Greenland ice sheet could be rescued.

However, when shortly thereafter a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress crash-landed on the ice sheet not far from Comanche Bay, a rescue operation ran into difficulties because of treacherous crevasses near the crash site and two men were lost.

[2] On account of war-related priorities the Comanche Bay base was reestablished in 1943 by Major John T. Crowell, along with a facility at Cape Cort Adelaer further south down the coast.

The weather station was located on top of a 351 metres (1,152 ft) high hill that was named Atterbury Dome, after the captain of the USCGC Comanche.

[2] Igtip Kangertiva or Comanche Bay lies at the southwestern limit of King Christian IX Land, a few miles east of Pikiulleq.