Cargo is offloaded, using a front end loader, from the C-141 Starlifter assigned to the 8th Airlift Squadron (AS), 62nd Airlift Wing, McChord Air Force Base, Washington. The plane sits on the six foot thick ice runway at the base after a flight from Christchurch, New Zealand. The 8th AS is deployed to support the joint, U.S. Armed Forces and New Zealand Defense Force, military operation which provides logistic support to the U.S. National Science Foundation's Program on Antarctica. SCREEN RESOLUTION ONLY
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: DEEP FREEZE
State: Mcmurdo Sound
Country: Antarctica (ATA)
Scene Camera Operator: SRA Richard Kaminski
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
30/09/1997
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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