Air dropping of diesel fuel
Philip K Swartz - 1960-61 - South Pole Station - Antarcticans Database Project more

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Four barrels to a pallet, and note the white stabilizing parachutes. The pallets would impact and bury in the snow, and finding the white chutes was nearly impossible. With protests they changed to a hot pink streamer and then to khaki chutes.

Pictures from Philip K Swartz, overwinter, South Pole, 60-61