Major General Richard Trzaskoma, Commander, 22nd Air Force, presents a picture of one of the first C-5B Galaxy aircraft to land near McMurdo Station to Dr. Peter Wilkniss, Director, Division of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation. The Galaxy touched down on an ice runway, which is over 10,000 feet long and was scraped from ice over eight feet deep. The aircraft is at the station during Operation DEEP FREEZE '90
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: DEEP FREEZE '90
Country: Antarctica (ATA)
Scene Camera Operator: MASTER Sergeant Jose Lopez Jr.
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
26/09/1989
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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