"William Hughes" wrote in message
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On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:01:33 +0100, in rec.aviation.military.naval Rob van
Riel
wrote:

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:46:40 -0600, William Hughes wrote:

Uh, Rob? You did remember the R4Ds flown from the Philippine Sea
(CV-47) in Jan
'47, didn't you?

Nope, I didn't (one of the reasons posting here is a good idea, you get
reminded of all sorts of things). Any hints on what it was doing there?
Testing for supply runs? Also, any idea what unit markings it bore at the
time?

As always, thanks for any info.

Rob

Six R4Ds were being transported to Little America, Antarctica, as part of
something called "Operation High Jump". The pilot of #1 was Commander
William
Hawkes, with Admiral Richard Byrd as a passenger.

I don't have much information on the event, just a couple of references in
my
research materials.


It was a post war Antarctic expedition and Admiral Byrd was
a little more than a passenger he was the expedition head.

CVN 77 was used to transport the ski-equipped R4D's (based
on the C-47/Dakota airframe) to the Antarctic where they were
used for aerial surveys

Note the NeoNazi nuts over on r.a.m will tell you they
were hunting for a sekrit SS Antarctic base

Keith




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