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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]
The simulated raid on the region was a test case of neutralizing Russian missile systems. [ 46 ] Altogether, in August–September 2020, two U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress bomber aircraft, integrated with Norwegian F-35 and F-16 fighter aircraft as well as Norwegian frigates, flew over international waters in the vicinity of the Norwegian Sea.
In October 1960, as part of Operation Deep Freeze, she departed Boston, passed through the Panama Canal, crossed the Pacific, visited New Zealand and McMurdo Sound. Leaving Antarctica, she traveled the Indian Ocean, came through the Suez Canal, crossed the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean to return home in May 1961.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Operation Deep Freeze. Four R4D-8Ls participated in Operation Deep Freeze ... 1960. [8] BuNo. 17219 named ...
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
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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
The 109th Airlift Wing (109 AW) is a unit of the New York Air National Guard, stationed at Stratton Air National Guard Base, Schenectady, New York.If activated to federal service, the Wing is gained by the United States Air Force Air Mobility Command.