Project Nanook

Project NANOOK was a Cold War reconnaissance effort of the United States that used the 1st RB-29 missions for mapping and visual reconnaissance in the Arctic and along the Northern Soviet Coast (later missions were Project LEOPARD along the Chukchi Peninsula, then RICKRACK, STONEWORK, and COVERALLS.)

Further reading

• Chandonnet, F. (2007). Alaska at War, 1941-1945: The Forgotten War Remembered. University of Alaska Press. p. 400. ISBN 9781602231351. Retrieved 2015-11-15. 
• Hoffman, C. (2002). Hunting Warbirds: The Obsessive Quest for the Lost Aircraft of World War II. Random House Incorporated. p. 15. ISBN 9780345436184. Retrieved 2015-11-15.