Neal Bicknese (Bick) - (WO DF1 DF60/61 DF63/64) - Casper, Wyo Full Time RV    I Wintered over all three times at McMurdo although I Spent the Summer a Byrd station in 63, Married my Wife of 52 Years in Sydney Aust. on the way home from DF1 Met her in CHCH On the way down.

Rodney G. Burt (USS Staten Island (GB 5) - 1958) - Rochesre MN. USA  I was a navy helicopter crewman with HU-1 from Ream Field, IMPERIAL beach CA. I would like to hear from someone who was there then. - email available

John C.Burritt (1958-59) - Fleming Is. FL

"I was a Navy helicopter pilot on the USCSC Northwind for Deep Freeze IV in 1958 - 1959. We departed Port Lyttleton, NZ for McMurdo, escorting and cutting channels in the ice for supply ships going to McMurdo. One of the most interesting helo trips was taking Sir Raymond Priestley out to Hut Point to see Shackleton's and Scott's huts. We were able to go into Shackleton's hut. It was like going into a shrine. No one touched anything, we just left our name, outfit, and date on a piece of paper stuck on the wall. We were enthralled with Shackleton's stories of how it had taken him a week dogsleding to get to the hut. He was enthralled with the fact that we covered the same ground by air in about 20 minutes."

Joe Morrow (1958) - USS Atkauss atka, currently Mineola, Tx

Douglas Strobel - Doug (1956-57 Deep Freeze 2)  - Base: USS Staten Island AGB5   Brentwood, CA USA. Didn't know any SEABEES from the Wyandot.. I was a Chief Radioman on the Breaker.....I am 86 years old now....

Mike Eldred  - "Operation Deep Freeze" historical blog, featuring photographs taken between 1961 and 1963, over the course of two different Operation Deep Freeze missions.  The blog includes photos of wildlife, military operations, Coast Guard and Naval vessels, as well as historic photographs of McMurdo Station taken less than a decade after the research station was established.
Wilmington, VT

The kitchen "tent" at McMurdo in 1955 where the food was prepared for our crew that was constructing the base during Deep Freeze 1. Everyone ate outside sitting on crates etc. during the initial stages. I slept in a tent near to Scott's Hut Point building.
Picture courtesy Ken Meyer (PH1-USNavy 53-58 MSgt USAF Ret. 58-73

U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker "Eastwind".
One of the icebreakers used by Operation Deep Freeze  in 1955-56
Photo US Navy - NSF

Aerial view looking Southerly toward McMurdo Base that was being constructed at the base of Mt. Discovery during Deep Freeze 1 about Dec. 1955 . The faint dark triangle from the ice edge is the two tractor trails that led from the cargo ships to the base. The air strip runway is to far right near top of picture.
Picture courtesy Ken Meyer (PH1-USNavy 53-58 MSgt USAF Ret. 58-73

Aerial view of the Williams Air facility (Now McMurdo Station) in 1957
Official US Navy Photo - NSF

Two U.S. Navy Yard Oiler Ships (YOG) frozen into the annual sea-ice at McMurdo in 1956. These were used as fuel storage facilities while the base was being built
Photo - Commander Jim Waldron USNR (Retired) - NSF

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