Life Support technician SSGT David H. Blake Jr. from the 62nd Aircraft Generation Squadron, McChord Air Force Base, Washington, assembles an extreme cold weather clothing kit. The kit is required issue for all aircrews flying missions to McMurdo Base, Antarctica. SSGT Blake and other 62nd Airlift Wing personnel are 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
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: DEEP FREEZE
Base: Christchurch
State: Canterbury
Country: New Zealand (NZL)
Scene Camera Operator: SRA Richard Kaminski
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
09/10/1997
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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