Browsing Antarctic Deep Freeze Oral History Project by Issue Date
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Interview of Walter L. Davis by Dian O. Belanger
Davis, Walter L. ( 2009-04-23 )Seabee Walt Davis volunteered for Antarctic duty in Deep Freeze II for the challenge of fully using his talents. Responsible for equipment maintenance, he was the only professional mechanic at Ellsworth Station. Wintering ... -
Interview of William H. Littlewood by Dian O. Belanger
Littlewood, William H. ( 2009-04-23 )Bill Littlewood, a civilian oceanographer in the Navy Hydrographic Office since 1949, had worked off an icebreaker in the Arctic when he learned about the IGY and agreed to participate in a six-month Antarctic expedition ... -
Interview of George Moss by Dian O. Belanger
Moss, George ( 2009-04-23 )Surveyor chief and navigator George Moss always claimed that he "was volunteered" for Antarctic duty in Deep Freeze I because of his Arctic experience and cold-weather survival training. He was the operations chief for ... -
Interview of Philip M. Smith by Dian O. Belanger
Smith, Philip M. (Philip Meeks), 1932- ( 2009-04-23 )Lieut. Philip Smith was a crevasse expert in an Army transportation unit in Greenland when Admiral Dufek asked him to blaze a safe trail to Marie Byrd Land. He agreed immediately. After recon-noitering a route by air, ... -
Interview of Paul F. Noonan by Dian O. Belanger
Noonan, Paul F. ( 2009-04-23 )Photographer Paul Noonan rode the cargo ship Arneb in Deep Freeze II to Wilkes Station where he wintered over. En route the ship got squeezed, near-disastrously, in storm-driven ice by Cape Hallett. On the Antarctic ... -
Interview of Michael Baronick by Dian O. Belanger
Baronick, Michael, 1923-2000 ( 2009-04-23 )Aviation ordnance chief Mike Baronick was a crew member on the first R5D that flew to the polar continent from New Zealand in December 1955. He wintered over at McMurdo during Deep Freeze I as the senior aviation enlisted ... -
Interview of Richard A. Bowers by Dian O. Belanger
Bowers, Richard A. ( 2009-04-23 )Lieutenant (jg) Richard A. Bowers, a structural engineer with the US Navy's Mobile Construction Battalion (Special), was the Officer-in-Charge of building an air operations facility for the IGY at McMurdo Sound during ... -
Interview of Lynn M. Cavendish by Dian O. Belanger
Cavendish, Lynn M., 1922-2001 ( 2009-04-23 )Civil engineer Lynn Cavendish participated in a hastily organized Construction Battalion Base Unit (Detachment Golf) survey program in Deep Freeze I. The party investigated the Cape Royds area and the Taylor Dry Valley ... -
Interview of Conrad Shinn by Dian O. Belanger
Shinn, Conrad, 1922- ( 2009-04-23 )Pilot Gus Shinn first saw Antarctica during Operation Highjump. He took off in an R4D from the aircraft carrier Philippine Sea, the only pilot to land at Little America IV with ski-landing experience. Shinn volunteered ... -
Interview of John A. Randall by Dian O. Belanger
Randall, John A., 1935-2005 ( 2009-04-23 )John Randall was a twenty-year-old construction mechanic, third class, when he volunteered for MCB (Special) in Deep Freeze I. During the winter at McMurdo he worked long hours to help maintain the overworked equipment ... -
Interview of Robert L. Chaudoin by Dian O. Belanger
Chaudoin, Robert L. ( 2009-04-23 )Yeoman Bob Chaudoin chose Antarctica for the adventure. After serving on Admiral Byrd's staff and then Task Force 43, he transferred to the Seabee battalion MCB (Special) for Deep Freeze I and sailed south on the Glacier. ... -
Interview of William E. Stroup by Dian O. Belanger
Stroup, William E. ( 2009-04-23 )Seabee Bill Stroup made chief petty officer the same summer he volunteered for Deep Freeze I. He was the chief electrician for Little America and building Byrd Station. Despite chaotic offloading, Stroup found all of his ... -
Interview of George Toney by Dian O. Belanger
Toney, George ( 2009-04-23 )George Toney was loaned to the secretariat of the US National Committee for the IGY as a US Weather Bureau Arctic logistics specialist. He accompanied the Antarctic reconnaissance cruise of the icebreaker Atka in 1954-55. ... -
Interview of Gilbert Dewart by Dian O. Belanger
Dewart, Gilbert, 1932- ( 2009-04-23 )Drawn by the mystery of the unknown, geophysicist Gilbert Dewart signed on as a seismologist for the IGY. He wintered over at Wilkes Station where he set up the first of a network of seismograph stations for continuous ... -
Interview of William T. Beckett by Dian O. Belanger
Beckett, William T., d. 2000 ( 2009-04-23 )Utilitiesman, first class, Willie Beckett had charge of installing and maintaining the base utilities heating, plumbing, water-at Little America V during Deep Freeze I.. After wintering over, he drove a D-8 in the tractor ... -
Interview of Edward N. Ehrlich by Dian O. Belanger
Ehrlich, Edward N. ( 2009-04-23 )Dr. Edward Ehrlich, then a drafted Navy lieutenant in the medical corps, learned from HMC Ken Aldrich when he volunteered for Deep Freeze I, that little medical planning had been done. But with his officer status and ... -
Interview of Richard Lucier by Dian O. Belanger
Lucier, Richard ( 2009-04-23 )Yeoman Richard Lucier was assigned to MCB (Special) when he volunteered for Antarctic duty, only then learning that it meant a whole year away from family and civilization. One of the first personnel to report in at the ... -
Interview of James H. Bergstrom by Dian O. Belanger
Bergstrom, James H. ( 2009-04-23 )Navy pilot and then-Lieutenant Jim Bergstrom volunteered for Operation Deep Freeze I as a GCA (Ground Controlled Approach) officer to guide incoming aircraft attempting to land on the ice in poor visibility. As officer-in-charge ... -
Interview of H. Kim Lett by Dian O. Belanger
Lett, H. Kim ( 2009-04-23 )Twenty-year-old Seabee equipment operator Kim Lett, after brief tractor training on the Greenland icecap, arrived at Little America V to winter over in Deep Freeze II-III. When an underwater projection on the high barrier ... -
Interview of Philip W. Porter, Jr. by Dian O. Belanger
Porter, Philip W., Jr. ( 2009-04-23 )Captain Philip Porter, who had earlier been part of the support force for Operation Highjump in 1946-47, commanded the icebreaker Glacier during Deep Freeze 60 and 61. He considered this a plum assignment; orders were ...