| Description | File from the Royal Society International Geophysical Year expedition to Halley Bay.
Operation Deep Freeze One - report of United Kingdon Observer. Parts 1-4, 6. Missing part 5.
Part I General: USN [United States Navy] responsibilities, main task for 1955, task force composition, achievements of the expedition, organisation of report, observers, scientific work, future operations.
Part II Ship Operations: Organisation, outline of operation, ship characteristics, towing, damage to ships by ice, berthing alongside ice, ice conditions in the Ross Sea, convoying through ice, icing of the upper deck.
Part III Air Operations: Objectives, air development squadron six, aircraft, plans for long rang aircraft, achievements and shortcomings, chronological outline of operations, operation of long range aircraft, operations of R4Ds and UF-1s, operation of De Havilland offers, operation of helicopters, flight safety, meteorology, future operations.
Part IV Shore Operations: The task, cargo, the mobile construction battalion, unloading organisation, Little America five, narrative of operations at Little America, Byrd station, Remarks of Byrd station trail party, future plans for Byrd stations, McMurdo Sound, narrative of Operations at McMurdo sound, comments on operations at McMurdo, unloading of bulk fuel, tractors, personnel carriers, sleds, miscellaneous equipment, future plans for surface vehicles, airstrip surveys, preparation of an ice/snow runway.
Part VI Miscellaneous: Clothing, Research projects, Hydrography, Publicity and photography, State of camps of former British expeditions. |