Arneb (AKA 56) - Naval Cruise Book

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LUMBERING ALONG. . . Housin9 maternal transported to bose Slie ADARE VILLAGE International effort' - A . .. .- Q'-. nf-. 'Y W ' .ef - - - ' '-r'-TOT' 1-if ' 4' ' mAP2ln5JiE?fi'o,665 o f t f found on the site selected for the base. Twenty men removed 9,000 in Operation Penguin-Lift. Then SeaBees of Mobile Construc- tion Battalion One went to work 'D ttt i f ALL RIGHT WHO DID IT? Local gentry pondering recent move IGY constructing the ll-building base. A supply dump was graded and per sonnelworked lntwo 12 hour shifts under the continuous daylnght ofthe Antarctic summer ln eight days the station began to take shape as the detachment of SeaBees erectedthe red steel sided huts on the ground where the pen gums once nested GRADING TERRAIN , , . Ancient volcanic ash gives Way under D-4 POWGI' TURN TO - SEABEE STYLE fl. C!! i T.

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HOOK, LINE AND GRANITE CLIFF l The first United States amphibious un- loading operation in the history of the Antarctic continent could never have been accomplished without the successful efforts of the Arneb's hatch crews and coxswains who, with the Seabees, were the key fig- ures in the unloading operations. Working in two, I2-hour shifts, around the clock, cargo was transferred in a con- stant flow from the Arneb's holds into the huge landing craft and hence onto the beach. I CARGO LIFT BIG HELP IN THE HOLDS -........,, 4 1 When the unloading was finally com- pleted, the ship's first and second divisions had unloaded and moved to the base site 2,600 measured tons of cargo. ' ON DECK SHIFT BAKER ll ,. NIJ, , I - ll INTO THE MIKE BOAT tr l.x W.. ,N A . X. . ll ' I ' M, ' H' I - 4 ' W I, V rw., Y sy ,Nw .Y Yiwu, I llllx 't

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f Lilfffm .L '3 '5 s J! '.-...DlM FIRST AID - A LONG WAY STEEL BANDAGE Repqafmqn of FROM HGME work on ice-smashed hull X WELDING WELL 'DONE f CAPE HALLETT DEPARTURE FINAL CHECK BEFORE ICEBERG VEILS FRIGID ANTARCTIC WATERS 1 A-:va