Burton Island (AGB 1) - Naval Cruise Book

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Personally, says Charlie Roberts, HI would rather put an extra man in there. The general feeling is that if the machine can't clear the snow quickly the time is going to Hback up and delay the supply schedule. If it goes down fbreaksb, your time is going to back up anyway, John Bell points out. alt has no parts with it. We might as well find the prevailing wind and put stakes out, says Cdr Kauffman. uDo it by eyeball. Someone says the second Trax is due to go in on 27 December. uLet's back up a minute, says john Bell. They have been planning this operation with their depart- ments for a year, and now, at the last moment, are just being ex- tremely cautious. This is why they ask each other rudimentary questions. They discuss IATO Qjet-assisted take-offj and how many bottles of it ought to be carried on each flight. Propellers don't have the same thrust in the thin air they will find at Plateau, and the engines don't develop full power at such a high altitude. Recently a Herc with Admiral Bakutis aboard tried ten times be- fore getting airborne at the Pole of Inaccessibility. HYou7re going to make two flights a day P Cdr Kauffman asks. 'cThis is commensurate with what you want elsewhere, re- plies Cdr Morris. He means the other air operations on the Con- tinent, each one eating up aircraft-hours like peanuts. Imagine an hourglass, magnified. The great surface at one end represents the immense amount of work done in Washington, Davisville, and Quonset, and the accumulated polar experience since Borchgrevink wintered-over at Cape Adare in 1899. All this is focused on four scientists and four Navy men at a point not only in space but in time. What they discover will then be fanned out and analyzed, until it becomes an even greater body of experience. In the wardroom, afterthe second showing of the movie, a Tech. Rep. named Sal Fiore begins playing the piano. Lt Don Kahler goes out and comes back with a guitar. Fiore fetches his accordion. Cdr Morris has nothing on his mind but the 450 men and 21 aircraft of VX-6. Not long ago he piloted a Herc himself on a rescue mission, 'iparlayedw the weather at Byrd, Eights, the Sentinels, and McMurdo, and didnit close his eyes for 24 hours. He goes to his quarters across the hall, and returns with a wash- tub to which a string has been attached, he plays it with a broom- stick, like a bass fiddle. Imperceptibly, suddenly, half a dozen expert, brave, overworked men are tuning up and playing jazz. So ends a rope yarn day. Overleaf: Breathtaking beauty is typical of mountains in the Antarctic. The glacier at lower left is similar to, but much smaller than, the famous Beardmore Glacier. 23 Ken Moulton, USARP representative at McMurdo, is a former meteorologist, but for eleven years he has been engaged in planning and administration. This was his seventh season in Antarctica, and he spent two winters in the Arctic. As senior scientist on the Continent, he was responsible for seeing that all USARP requirements were relayed to the Navy and that the scientists understood the logistic problems of the support force.

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