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Wood protected and palletized containers of supplies and food for the Deep Freeze personnel who spend the winter darkness on Antarctica is extracted out the rear cargo doors of the McChord AFB, WA, 62nd Military Airlift Wing's C-141B Starlifter using parachutes. Exact Date Shot Unknown

Wood protected and palletized containers of supplies and food for the Deep Freeze personnel who spend the winter darkness on Antarctica is extracted out the rear cargo doors of the McChord AFB, WA, 62nd Military Airlift Wing's C-141B Starlifter using parachutes. Exact Date Shot Unknown

Wood protected and palletized containers of supplies and food for the Deep Freeze personnel who spend the winter darkness on Antarctica is extracted out the rear cargo doors of the McChord AFB, WA, 62nd Military Airlift Wing's C-141B Starlifter using parachutes. Exact Date Shot Unknown

Personnel wearing cold weather gear, push containers of supplies and food out the paratroop door of the aircraft over South Pole station. The airdrop by 62nd Military Airlift Wing's C-141B Starlifter was to resupply Deep Freeze personnel who spend the winter darkness on Antarctica. Exact Date Shot Unknown

Personnel wearing cold weather gear, push containers of supplies and food out the paratroop door of the aircraft over South Pole station. The airdrop by 62nd Military Airlift Wing's C-141B Starlifter was to resupply Deep Freeze personnel who spend the winter darkness on Antarctica. Exact Date Shot Unknown

Bundles of produce and supplies to resupply Deep Freeze personnel on Antarctica, with parachutes attached sit inside the ramp at the Christchurch International Airport prior to loading on to the McChord AFB, WA based-62nd Military Airlift Wing's C-141B Starlifter sitting in the background. Exact Date Shot Unknown

Bundles of produce and supplies to resupply Deep Freeze personnel, with parachutes attached, sit inside the cargo hold of a 62nd Military Airlift Wing's C-141B Starlifter enroute to Antarctica. Exact Date Shot Unknown

A March AFB, CA, 22nd Air Refueling Wing (SAC) KC-10 refueling aircraft flies into the Antarctic sun. It just completed refueling a C-141 Starlifter returning from a paradrop mission to the Deep Freeze personnel who spend the winter darkness at McMurdo Base and South Pole station. Exact Date Shot Unknown

A McChord AFB, WA, 62nd Military Airlift Wing's C-141B Starlifter is refueled while flying over the snow and ice covered expanse of Antarctica. It is returning to Christchurch, New Zealand after dropping containers of supplies and food to the Deep Freeze personnel who spend the winter darkness at McMurdo Base and South Pole station. Exact Date Shot Unknown

Wood protected and palletized containers of supplies and food for the Deep Freeze personnel who spend the winter darkness on Antarctica is extracted out the rear cargo doors of the McChord AFB, WA, 62nd Military Airlift Wing's C-141B Starlifter using parachutes. Exact Date Shot Unknown

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Subject Operation/Series: MID-WINTER AIR DROP

Country: New Zealand (NZL)

Scene Camera Operator: Fred Jones

Release Status: Released to Public

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01/06/1985
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label_outline Explore Winter Darkness, Deep Freeze Personnel, Cargo Doors

An Air Force KC-10 Extender aircraft refuels a C-141B Starlifter aircraft (as seen from the KC-10) during the return flight from McMurdo Station, Antarctica, to Christchurch, New Zealand. The C-141 has just completed an airdrop during Operation Deep Freeze

U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Christopher Clark, Pakistan

Passengers depart from a C-141B Starlifter aircraft during the 30th anniversary of Operation DEEP FREEZE

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Bundles of produce and supplies to resupply Deep Freeze personnel on Antarctica, with parachutes attached sit inside the main hangar used by Det. 2, 619th Military Airlift Support Squadron (MASS), at the Christchurch International Airport.Exact Date Shot Unknown

External fuel tanks are stored and certified within

Army Capt. Christopher Harrington, assigned to 6th

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