BYRD ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, OPERATION HI-JUMP Part 3

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Signal Corps 218-1 ADC 7218 SOURCE: AFCF (US NAVY) Card 1 of 2 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 900' ea Silent BYRD ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1946-47 Operation Hi-Jump Task Force 68 (No Captions) MLS, man trying to coax a penguin toward him. One of the vessels anchored in the ice. A tractor is unloaded. Shot through window, showing tractor pulling sled; ship anchored in distant background. Landing strip mats are placed on the ice. Tractor towing a sled loaded with crates over the landing mat strip. ELS, Pan, supplies stacked at Little America. Aboard one of the ships in convoy en route, ceremonies hazing of the men on crossing the equator. Short shot, submarine surfacing at sea. Destroyer under way; in the distant bg. an iceberg. RG 111 An amphibious mariner is lowered into the water from ship. The mariner taking off from the water in the Antarctic. Accession III-NAV-210 An amphibious mariner in flight. (Hazy) One of the ships in convoy seen from another ship. Officer looking through binoculars. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/me Signal Corps DC 218-2 ADC 7218 SOURCE: AFCF (US Navy) Card 2 of 2 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 900' ea Silent BYRD ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1946-47 Cont Operation Hi-Jump Cont Task Force Cont (No Captions) Cont Aboard Ship. Radar detecting device turning. CU, wind instrument aboard vessel. Scenes from deck of vessel showing ice in heavy sea. Various scenes, ice-studded sea. LS, huge rocks partly covered with snow, jutting out of the sea. ELSs, ship passing through narrow ice canyon, the entrance to Ross Sea, Scenes from deck of vessel as the ship moves through the canyon. Cut to ice-studded waters. Shot from mast of vessel as the bow of icebreaker clears a path. RG 111 Accession III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/me

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities