1946 Operation Highjump - persontransfer between ships

Dramatic transfering people between ships in rough sea.
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Operation Highjump (OpHjp), officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946-47, was a United States Navy operation organized by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd in Antarctica under the command of Richard Cruzen, which was launched on 26 August 1946 and lasted until 1947. The massive Antarctic task force included 4,700 men, 13 ships, and multiple aircraft.

The stated claims of the operation were as follows

to train personnel and test material in the frigid zones
to consolidate and extend American sovereignty over the largest practical area of the Antarctic continent
to determine the feasibility of establishing and maintaining bases in the Antarctic and to investigate possible base sites
to develop techniques for establishing and maintaining air bases on the ice, with particular attention to the later applicability of such techniques to operations in interior Greenland. (where, it was then believed, physical and climatic conditions resembled those in Antarctica)
to amplify existing knowledge of hydrographic, geographic, geological, meteorological and electromagnetic conditions in the area.

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[InsomnicNarcoleptic]

next time drop down the life boat just in case the line snaps?

[olemann77]

@InsomnicNarcoleptic yeah, im stunned at their level of preparedness.. lol

[olemann77]

dry LAND on the north pole? HAHA

[xander7ful]

Yes. Type in Admiral Byrd and Hollow Earth, and see what you find. Admiral Byrd was taken to Inner Earth and saw dry land and warm water beyond where they say the Pole is. It's in his personal diaries which he never made public.

[olemann77]

You are mixing the poles, and this was never documented as his own saying or writings. Check your sources for his "lost logs".

[MrUS1972]

Oh the horror!!!!!! the horror!!!!

[AceOfHeart2012]

The crazy shit people will do for a paper paycheck.

[rageatm4life]

it been 10 months u found it yet im intrigued

[DoctorScuba]

In 1929 in one of the weekly Paramount "Movie Tone News" there was a few seconds of Film alledgedly showing dry land on the North Pole. I have been trying to locate the Paramount Movie Tone News dealing with the 1929 expedition; whare could I find it? (maybe it's hidden in a Film Vault deep within the Hollow Earth! Bwahahahahaha!)