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Operation Deep Freeze in Antarctica. Expedition to Little America, led by Admiral Richard E. Byrd

View of Icebreaker USS Edisto (AGB-2) underway in Antarctic waters. View of ice breaking in front of the ship and penquins swimming. View of cargo ship, USS Arneb (AKA-56), with heavy smoke pouring from stack. Penquins waddling about on the ice. Explorers disembarking from ship via long gangway to the ice. Group digging hole in ice. Views of Little America buildings and supplies left from previous expeditions. Admiral Byrd arrives by helicopter and presides over flag-raising ceremony for Little America II. Admiral Richard E. Byrd,Paul Siple, Major Murray Wiener USAF, and IGY representative Edward Goodall salute the flag.

Location: Little America Antarctica
Date: 1955
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675056004
Byrd Expedition members raise barricades and build shelters in Little America, Antarctica.

Members of the Byrd Expedition to Antarctica build the Little America Base camp including shelters and barricades against the strong icy winds. A man hits a stick on a pan to signal meal time. Men eat and drink at a table in the enclosure. A man takes a picture. Another one puts a flag in the ice sheet. Men dig in the snow with shovels. They raise tall planks to build a cabin. Piles of boxes. Men work as a blizzard sweeps over the ice sheet. A man completes the roof with planks. Radio towers on the ice.

Location: Little America Antarctica
Date: 1929
Duration: 2 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675020815
Members of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition raise barricades and build shelters in Little America, Antarctica.

Byrd Expedition members build Little America in Antarctica. Explorers at a camp site. Men shovel snow and pile up boxes to build a barricade against the strong icy winds. A man hits a stick on a pan to signal meal time. Men eat and drink at a table in the enclosure. A man takes a picture another one puts a flag in the ice sheet. Men dig in the snow with shovels. They raise tall planks to build a make shelters. Piles of boxes. Men work as a blizzard sweeps over the ice sheet. A man completes the roof with planks. Radio towers on the ice.

Location: Antarctica
Date: 1929
Duration: 2 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675020811
Supplies being moved by dog sled and other tractors at Little America III, Antarctica, during Antarctic III Expedition

U.S. explorer Richard E. Byrd's 3rd expedition to Antarctica. Team of workers constructing a large wooden building at Little America III. Condor seaplane seen behind the building. A tractor pulls sleds loaded with fuel drums. Boxes lying on snow. Camera placed on a tripod. Supplies being moved by dog sled. A tractor tows sled full of luggage.

Location: Antarctica
Date: 1940
Duration: 4 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046679
U.S. Navy expedition team, "Operation High Jump" lands on Antarctica.

Relates to the U.S. Antarctic expedition,Operation High Jump. Shows U.S. Navy fleet in Antarctica. A group of emperor penguins. Antics of the penguins. Sailors anchor the ships with "dead men" (sunk pylons). Aircraft, vehicles and equipment including Weasels, trucks, bulldiozers, are unloaded from the ships up to "Little America." Huskies carry sailors on sledges and sleds. Demolition team plant charges and clears the way ahead. Men build an airstrip on the ice for the landings of U.S. DC-3 (R4D) aircraft. Tracked caterpillars and bulldozer level the surface. The expedition team starts to settle in Antarctica.

Location: Antarctica
Date: 1950
Duration: 6 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029542
Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd and his team raise flags as the sun rises at Little America, Antarctica.

The sun rises in the South Pole at 'Little America'. Men look at the rising sun during Antarctic Expedition. U.S. Navy Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd and his team raise American, British and Norwegian flags in honor of Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen. Snow is shoveled away from the windows of a hut. A man sleep in a bunk bed wakes up as the sunlight comes in he pulls a clothesline towards his bed to retrieve his boots. Books lined on shelves in the background. Team members put newborn Husky puppies onto the snow, arranging them in front of a miniature dog sled. The mother dog quickly picks up each puppy in here mouth to bring them back into her dog house to warm them.

Location: Little America Antarctica
Date: 1928
Duration: 2 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054621
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