KC4USE 1960 Antarctica
USCGC Eastwind Beginning
in 1960 Deepfreeze operations were named
after the fiscal year.
During Deepfreeze 60 NMCB-6 (Naval Mobile
Construction Battalion 6) built a new above-ground station on the
Palmer Peninsula and the following year built the first highway
in Antarctica.
New docking facilities were built at McMurdo as well as a new
dispensary, and generator and water distillation plants.
QSL from the estate of W9IIB
Info courtesy of W5KNE