Activities of U.S. Navy personnel in Antarctica during Operation High Jump. A ship passes through an ice pack. U.S. Navy Admiral Richard Cruzen and other officers on the navigation bridge of USS Northwind. Broken up ice pack. The bow of USS Northwind in the foreground. The shadow of the superstructure of USS Northwind on ice. Northwind comes up to break USS Yancey free from ice. USS Mount Olympus stuck in ice. Officers on the bridge. The shadow of the superstructure of USS Northwind on ice.
Briefing session of officers on Operation Thunderstorm at the U.S. Air Force's All Weather Flying Center in Wilmington,Ohio. Drawing of P-61 Black Widow on the board. P-61's stand on field. Man checks film on a moviola. View of transformers used for man made lightening. Man walks inside a huge ribbed cylinder. A specially equipped plane's canopy is subjected to bolt of man-made lightning. Briefing group on radar and Rotating radar antenna. Operators work at radar sets in a Nissen hut. Men rig cameras. Storm indication on radar screen. Radar unit in a van. Antenna rotating. P-61 comes in for landing. Radar van in foreground. Briefing on weather bureau research. Civilian pointing to station on chart. Weather testing balloons are sent aloft. Man at a tracking radar set. Weather map received on facsimile receiver. Man removes message (readings) from a teletype.
Technician draws lines and shades area on a weather map at the U.S. Air Force's All Weather Flying Center in Wilmington, Ohio. A U.S. Sergeant in radar station checks shaded areas on the map. Indication of storm on radar scope. Pilots rush to P-6s or Black Widows and take off. Five P-61s in flight. A P-61 enters a stormy cloud. Inside the cockpit view of the Pilot of P-61 in flight. View of radar antenna at ground base and men at radar station. P-61s fly through stormy weather. Technicians gather reports and look at record films on moviolas. A P-61 in flight gains altitude and banks.
Aerial view of two U.S. P-61s (Black Widow) in flight above Colomiers in France. A P-61 taxied on an airstrip.
Aerial view of a U.S. P-61s (Black Widow) in flight at a high altitude above Colomiers in France. The P-61 flies through a cloud laden sky.
A crew member of a U.S. P-61 Black Widow loads gun rounds in the P-61s mounted guns in Colomiers, France. Crew members work at different sections of the P-61 to prepare it for night mission. A crew member works near the cockpit of the plane.