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This paper analyzes the origins of two 1946 sightings of Soviet submarines in the Davis Strait, placing the various reports about them into an international and interservice framework. It shows how the Davis Strait and the surrounding area (Greenland, the Canadian Arctic, and Newfoundland and Labrador) fit into early post–World War II war plans for strategic deterrence. The Davis Strait sightings combined with American and British appreciations to spur Canada to endorse postwar joint defense plans with the Americans; to pursue trilateral intelligence, research, and defense work; and to agree to defense preparations in the north, including supporting American plans to establish strategic air forces in Goose Bay, Labrador.
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