March Military Campaign: Antarctica, 1962 and 1963

By Dan Strohl

Hemmings

Mike Eldred to the rescue again! He provided us with the LARC-60 photos, and then the other day he surprised us with this selection of photos from his father’s time in Antarctica.

Here’s a group of photos taken by my father, David Eldred, at McMurdo Base, Antarctica, in 1962 and 1963 during two successive “Operation Deep Freeze” missions. At the time, he was stationed on a Coast Guard icebreaker, the USCGC Eastwind.

See the full series of burly Antarctic ice-crawlers at Hemmings.