Product Details

• Producers: Traditions Military Videos
• Region: All Regions
• Run Time: 85 minutes
• ASIN: B0010AYMLC
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #341,802 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Three films: "Flight to the South Pole" was produced by the Navy in 1968 and includes historic film footage from the 1920s to the 1950s. "Admiral Byrd Story" traces this pioneer's career from his days as a Navy ensign and naval aviator to his polar expeditions. "Operation Deep Freeze 1" explores the Navy's support in 1955 of exploration in Antarctica. Bases at Little America and McMurdo Sound were established. "Flight to the South Pole" is a U.S. Navy film made in 1968. It is built around the flight of a Navy C-130 aircraft from McMurdo Sound to the South Pole in support of National Science Foundation operations. Historic background shows the 1928 Byrd expediton with its Ford trimotor plane, which made the first flight to the South pole on Nov. 29, 1928. In 1930 Byrd returned to Antarctica, and in 1946 Operation Hi-Jump took off from the carrier PHILIPPINE SEA with several types of aircraft for Antarctica. In 1953 Operation Deep Freeze used P2V aircraft, and in 1956 the first aircraft, a C-130 of VX-6, landed at the South Pole, again in support of National Science Foundation activities.