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The mission's second base, Byrd Station, was a (former) research station in West Antarctica established by the US Navy for Operation Deep Freeze II during the International Geophysical Year. [5] The United States Antarctic Program airfield, built to service Operation Deep Freeze (first mission) was later named Williams Field or Willy Field. [6]
A joint Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines operation supported an overland tractor train traverse that left out of Little America V in late 1956 to establish the station. . The train was led by Army Major Merle Dawson and completed a traverse of 646 miles (1,040 km) over unexplored country in Marie Byrd Land to blaze a trail to a spot selected beforeha
During Deep Freeze III, a C-124 air-dropped a seven-ton tractor to an isolated site, and during Deep Freeze 62 (October–December 1961), three C-124's made the longest flight in Antarctic history, a 3,100-mile round trip to airdrop supplies. Also during Deep Freeze 62, Lt. Gen. Joe W. Kelly became the first MATS commander to visit the operation.
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1955–1956 – Operation Deep Freeze – led by Richard Evelyn Byrd (Byrd's fifth expedition) 1955–1957 – Falkland Island Dependency Aerial Survey led by P G Mott; 1955–1957 – 1st Soviet Antarctic Expedition – led by Mikhail Somov
Little Rockford was an Antarctic exploration base from December 1958 to January 1965, [1] located on the Ross Ice Shelf, south of the Bay of Whales.Little Rockford was a field camp and weather station along the Little America tractor trail and was located between McMurdo Sound and Byrd Station, 160 miles from Little America. [2]
Little America V was established on January 3, 1956, at Kainan Bay, some 30 miles (50 kilometers) east of Little America IV, as part of Operation Deep Freeze. [11] Little America V served as the American base in the South Polar program in the International Geophysical Year , from July 1, 1957, to December 31, 1958. [ 11 ]
In 1964, Mills was assigned to Operation Deep Freeze, the U.S. Naval Force supporting scientific research in Antarctica. During the austral summer seasons of 1964–65, and 1966–67, and 1967–68, Mills took station to provide weather information and electronic navigational aid to aircraft ferrying men and equipment between Christchurch , New ...