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{{Short description|WWII United States military code name for Greenland}}{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2016}}{{about|the codename|Louie Bluie, the musician|Howard Armstrong (musician)}}{{confused|Bluey (disambiguation){{!}}Bluey}}(File:NarsarssuakAB-Greenland-1942.jpg|thumb|The airfield code-named Bluie West One became the best-known World War II military base on Greenland.)Bluie was the United States military code name for Greenland during World War II. It is remembered by the numbered sequence of base locations identified by the 1941 United States Coast Guard South Greenland Survey Expedition, and subsequently used in radio communications by airmen unfamiliar with pronunciation of the Greenlandic Inuit and Danish names of those locations. These were typically spoken BLUIE (direction) (number), with direction being east or west along the Greenland coast from Cape Farewell.Morison, p.62

• Bluie East One: Torgilsbu radio and weather stationWEB,weblink Joint Committee Annual Report 2011, United States State Department, 9 August 2014, 27 July 2020,weblink dead, at {{coord|60|9|N|43|53|W|scale:2000000|display=inline|name=Bluie East 1}} near Aqissiat on Prince Christian Sound
• Bluie East Two: Ikateq airfield with radio and weather station at {{coord|65|56|43|N|36|39|45|W|scale:2000000|display=inline|name=Bluie East 2}}
• Bluie East Three: Gurreholm radio and weather station at {{coord|71|14|43|N|24|35|01|W|scale:2000000|display=inline|name=Bluie East 3}}Gurreholm Research Station at geonames.org; retrieved 25 July 2021 on Scoresby Sund
• Bluie East Four: Ella Island radio, weather, and sledge patrol station at {{coord|72|51|N|25|00|W|scale:2000000|display=inline|name=Bluie East 4}}
• Bluie East Five: Eskimonæs radio and weather station captured by German troops in 1943 and later reestablished at Myggbukta {{coord|73|29|28|N|21|32|26|W|scale:2000000|display=inline|name=Bluie East 5}}
• Bluie West One: Narsarsuaq Air Base at {{coord|61|10|N|45|26|W|scale:1000000|display=inline|name=Bluie West 1}}
• Bluie West Two: Kipisako unused alternative airfield location on Coppermine Bay
• Bluie West Three: Simiutak HF/DF station at {{coord|60|41|N|46|34|W|scale:1000000|display=inline|name=Bluie West 3}}
• Bluie West Four: Marrak Point {hide}citation needed span|text=airfield, |reason=cited source does not mention an airfield

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  name=Bluie West 4}} Bluie West Five: Aasiaat radio and weather station at {{coord|68|42|35|N|52|52|10|W|scale:1000000|display=inline|name=Bluie West 5}} on Disko Island Bluie West Six: Thule radio and weather station at {{Coord|76|31|52|N|068|42|11|W|scale:2000000|display=inline|name=Bluie West 6}} Bluie West Seven: Kangilinnguit base at {{coord|61|14|00|N|48|05|55|W|scale:1000000|display=inline|name=Bluie West 7}} to defend the Ivittuut cryolite mine Bluie West Eight: Sondrestrom Air Base at {{Coord|67|00|38|N|50|42|33|W|scale:2000000|display=inline|name=Bluie West 8}} Bluie West Nine: Cruncher Island light and radio beacon at {{coord|66|03|N|53|36|W|scale:1000000|display=inline|name=Bluie West 9}} Notes {{reflist}} Sources BOOK, Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1975, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume 1: The Battle of the Atlantic September 1939 â€“ May 1943, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, {{Abandoned sites in Greenland}}

  
  
  
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