BYRD ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1946-47, OPERATION HI-JUMP Part 1

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Signal Corps 111 ADC 7223-1 ADC 7223 SOURCE: AFCF (US Navy) Card I of 2 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 577' ea Silent BYRD ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1946-47 Operation Hi=Jump Task Force 68 (No Captions) AV, Antarctic wastes. Animated map of area from Ross Shelf to Wendell Sea. LS, building at Little America; windstorm blowing. MS, Commander Richard E. Byrd in one of the buildings at Little America going over charts with some of the men. vs, C-47 (RF4) equipped with skis moving over the ice. LS, RV, as the plane lifts off ground. RG 111 Scene of C-47 (RF4) making jet-assisted take-off. Accession III-NAV-210 AV, camp at Little America. Small body of water surrounded on three sides by ice. Plane equipped with skis landing; smudge pots going on field. LS as a man with flag signals in plane. MS, Admiral Byrd getting out of plane and shaking hands with Adm Richard H Cruzens. MS, Adm Byrd talking to one of the men. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/me Signal Corps 111 ADC 7223-2 ADC 7223 SOURCE: AFCF (US Navy) Card 2 of 2 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 577' ea Silent BYRD ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1946-47 (Cont) Operation Hi=Jump (Cont) Task Force 68 (Cont) (No Captions) MS, Adm Byrd posing with five other men. Men unloading camera plate holders from plane. Int., men checking panorama photographs. RG 111 Accession III-NAV-210 Pan, box of supplies stacked on ice. Few men walking about in scene. LS, men carrying boxes from the supply dump to trench. Men in trench which will be used for storage, setting boxes in place. 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