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Ships of the Central Group pick their way through the pack ice off the Ross Sea. In order: Northwind, Merrick, Yancey, Mount Olympus. |
U.S.S. Yancey | R4D prepared for takeoff. |
| Photographers Mates shooting movies from the weasel. | Clipped by the Royal Barbers! | Letter writing session. |
| King Neptune and company on the Royal Throne aboard Mount Olympus. | Rear Admiral Byrd, revisits his old hut at the site of the original Little America and revives memories by smoking a 12 year old corn cob pipe left there at the time of the departure of the Second Byrd Expedition in 1935. | Base Camp in the Bay of Whales. |
| Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal, congratulates Rear Admiral R.E. Byrd on his arrival in Washington 14 April 1947. On the left: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and Rear Admiral Richard H. Cruzen. | This ice whiskered sailor and 3700 others like him did the work of Operation Highjump. | Aviation personnel hauling supplies by sled. |
| Icicles make informal decoration on mess tent. | Helicopter based on Northwind returns from observation flight. | The Sennet had to be rescued when shifts in the wind caused the pack ice to close in on her. Here the Northwind gets a heaving line preparatory to towing the sub to safety. |
| Robert C. Luther, F2/e aboard the U.S.S. Mount Olympus, holds five Huskies which were to accompany their mother to the Antarctic. | Chow time and no one minds waiting in line . . . much! | An R4D comes in for landing after a mapping flight. |
| Simple Antarctic furnishings. | Interior view of the Sick Bay tent at Highjump Base. | Through this line pass the best fed men in the world. |
| Operating K-18 from flying bridge on Mount Olympus. | View of ships moored to bay ice. | Northwind splitting an ice floe. |
| Planning survey flight. | Camp Highjump. View West. Altitude 1500 feet. | A.H. Taylor, of the Naval Research Laboratory, experiments with sonar sounding through the ice. |
| Dr. Paul A. Siple (left), senior representative of the War Department on Operation Highjump, and Admiral Byrd. | Rear Admiral Byrd dropping United Nations flags over the South Pole. | Antarctic swimming session! |
| Unloading the weasel from Yancey to the bay ice. | Aerographers inflating radiosande balloon on Mount Olympus. | Viewing ice pack from Burton Island. |
| Food supplies from the U.S.S. Yancey are unloaded onto the ice of the Bay of Whales. | Navy motion picture cameraman is swung out on a crane to document progress of the U.S.S. Burton Island through the ice pack. | Central Group ships in bay ice. |
| Mount Olympus getting underway due to ice in Bay of Whales. | USCG Northwind breaks up the ice pack for the U.S.S. Yancey. | LVT trail party returns to Base Camp from seven day trip into interior where they established an emergency food and fuel cache at the foot of Mt. Helen Washington. |
| The U.S.S. Yancey departs the Bay of Whales, 6 February 1947. Note crevasse in shelf ice in foreground. | Dog team pulling sled with cargo. | Rear Admiral Byrd and his staff aboard the flagship U.S.S. Mount Olympus. |
| R4D transport plane, modified for aerial mapping, get boost on takeoff with JATO. | Unloading food supplies at base camp. | Radar setup at base camp. |
| Raising the flag at Base Camp. | Tractors pack down snow on improvised bridge covering crack in Bay of Whales. | Navy cameramen photographing huge crevasse. |
| Photographic operations tent. | Mess line at base camp. | Sick Bay tent. |
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