DEEPFREEZE 60 Part 1

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1) MS BUG CATCHING NET FRAME STICKING OUT DOOR OF UC1 OTTER.2) CU NET GOING OUT OF METAL FRAME WHILE PLANE IS IN FLIGHT.G3) CU LOOKING DOWN OVER FRAME. G TO F4) CU FRAME STICKING OUT OF DOORWAY OF PLANE WITH NET ATTACHED; MAN PULLS NET INTO PLANE. G5) CU MAN REMOVING NET FROM FRAME. G6) MS SIDE OF UC1 OTTER; THIS IS A BRITISH PLANE. G7) MLS 3/4 FRONT OTTER FLYING LOW OVER ICE RUNWAY. SV VG8) ECU FRONT OF JULIAN W. POSEY, SCIENTITIC LEADER OF DF IV AT THE SOUTH POLE; WHISKERS FROSTED. G9) ECU LT DALE BARCK VX-6 PILOT OF R4D 99853.10) CU LT CARLSON, CO-PILOT. VG11) CU UNIDENT. MAN IN RED PARKA POSING, SMILES. VG12) ECU R4D AT SOUTH POLE STATION, MAN CONNECTING HERMAN NELSON HEATER TO SIDE OF PLANE. VG13) LA CU NOSE SECTION OF PLANE, WITH LETTERS "WILSHE DOIT" PAINTED ON SIDE. VG14) CU MANS HAND PUMPING GAS FOR PLANE. SV G15) LA MS MAN STANDING ON WING OF PLANE DURING FUELING. G16) CU THREE MEN STAND BY FUEL BARREL, TAKE TURNS PUMPING. G17) LA MCU MAN WORKING ON PREHEATER HOSE AT FRONT OF PORT ENGINE.G18) MS MAN PUTTING PREHEATER HOSE TO RECESE UNDER ENGINE. G19) CU DR. POSEY SITTING IN SEAT OF D4 TRACTOR PARKED NEXT TO PLANE; HE STEPS DOWN, WALKS TOWARDS SLED ATTACHED TO TRACTOR; MEN IN PLANE. G20) LS R7V1 OF AIRDEVELOPMENT SQUADRON SIX COMES IN FOR LANDING ON ICE RUNWAY DURING NEAR "WHITE OUT"; PLANE IS ON AN EMERGENCY MISSION. A NEW ZEALAND TRAVERSE PARTY 180 MILES FROM MCMURDO CRASHED DOWN OVER 100 FEET INTO A SNOW BRIDGED CREVASSE. THEY WERE DRIVING A SNO CAT. IT LANDED UPSIDE DOWN AND KILLED THE DRIVER. TWO OTHERS WERE TRAPPED 24 HOURS IN THE VEHICLE UNTIL THE FORWARD PARTY WHO HAD GONE ON SOME WAY AHEAD MISSED THE RENDEZVOUS THAT HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY ARRANGED. A BACKTRACK REVEALED THE GAPING CREVASSE. THE SURVIVORS AND THE BODY OF THE DECEASED WERE BROUGHT BACK TO MCMURDO BY VX-6 HELICOPTER.21) CU REAR OF R7V TAXIING ALONG RUNWAY. G TO F22) CU REAR OF R7V IN PARKING AREA; MEN WALK UP RAMP TO PLANE. G23) MS MEN TENDING HOSE WHICH LEADS TO WING OF PLANE; TWO MEN ON WING GRAB HOLD THE FUELING HOSE FOR REFUELING.24) MS PAN: TO LEFT, COPTER ARRIVING WITH SURVIVORS. G25) CU 3/4 FRONT OF COPTER ON ICE, GROUP OF MEN STAND OFF TO SIDE, REMOVING ONE MAN FROM COPTER. FOUR MEN CARRY THE STRETCHERS FROM COPTER TO WAITING R7V.26) MS REAR OF MEN CARRYING STRETCHER CASE TO PLANE.27) LA CU MEN WALKING UP RAMP INTO PLANE. G28) HA MS MEN CARRYING ANOTHER STRETCHER CASE TO THE RAMP OF THE PLANE, MOVE UP RAMP. SV29) ECU MAN IN STRETCHER, HEAD ON PILLOW, MEN MOVE SLOWLY UP RAMP. F

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General Records of the Department of the Navy

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Moving Images Relating to Military Activities