Frobisher Bay was no different than any other location in the Eastern Arctic. Even though there were excellent airport facilities, the bulk of all equipment and supplies came in by water transportation. As can be expected, the shipping season was very short. As a result, it was not unusual to have many ships in the immediate area - all trying to offload their precious cargos as quickly as possible.
It was one thing to envision the "annual re-supply" requirements for the "Upper base" and the "Lower base" - but we must not forget the requirements of the location population and the Hudson's Bay Company store.
As if that wasn't enough, there was a decision up upgrade the Inuit housing area. The original village of Ikaluit would soon be replaced with the more modern "Apex Hill", and as a result, an entire replacement village had to be constructed "right from scratch".
We prefer to restrict our presentation to a series of US Army landing craft and other assorted heavy equipment which was used to offload equipments and supplies from the ships in the bay to the beach for furtherance to final destination.
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