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Operation Highjump (OpHjp), officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946-47, was a United States Navy operation organized by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd in Antarctica under the command of Richard Cruzen, which was launched on 26 August 1946 and ended abruptly in late February 1947, six months earlier than planned. The massive Antarctic task force included 4700 men, 13 ships, and multiple aircraft. The stated claims of the operation were as follows to train personnel and test material in the frigid zones to consolidate and extend American sovereignty over the largest practical area of the Antarctic continent to determine the feasibility of establishing and maintaining bases in the Antarctic and to investigate possible base sites to develop techniques for establishing and maintaining air bases on the ice, with particular attention to the later applicability of such techniques to operations in interior Greenland. (where, it was then believed, physical and climatic conditions resembled those in Antarctica) to amplify existing knowledge of hydrographic, geographic, geological, meteorological and electromagnetic conditions in the area.
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@MorganOthelloLafay: uploading . com/files/63e2af3d/Johannes-Jurgenson-Das-Gegenteil-ist-wahr-Band-II. pdf. html – UFOs und Flugscheiben als Waffen im Kampf um die globale Macht S. 171/172 read it. The download (on the left
is free! (im Link Leerstellen zusammenziehen)
@MorganOthelloLafay: Yeeees, and it wasnt just about “icy rocks” (Ronald Reagan)… The falklands are of strategical importance – positioned between Neuschwabenland and Patagonia. (german) Wikipedia has a good history of the Falklands and the controversial territorial claims that rage about them.
@Andreclaude69: ALCi transports per year ca. 150 persons, most of them scientists (or people who have enough money to pay for an arranged trip tp the southpole and pinguins or their own expedition), DROMLAN transports ca. 150 scientists (only!) per year to the coast!! of Neuschwabenland – which is nearly twice the size of Germany and the Antarctica is twice the size of Australia! So, no(!) hords of tourists doing their private stuff in Neuschwabenland.
@DasWaldkind The Americans lost about 40 nuclear weapons! and did not find them all again. And a lot of B52. What makes this bomber crash so special for you?
@DasWaldkind War es nicht ein Krieg , wegen der Falkland Islands. Zwischen Argentinien und GB ?
@MorganOthelloLafay: The Palomares Incident ocurred 1966 so it was a different bomber! Look up the link I posted! I (!) investigate properly. The Neuschwabenland-Falkland-Patagonia-Cordoba story has not reached its end yet, that’s why the British Crown will intervene once more in the near future trying to battle their old “Rumpelstilzchen”-enemy.
(Yes, using the german language would be easier for me, but most YT-users could’nt understand it…)
@DasWaldkind Palomares, Spain. B52
You should investigate properly :- ))))))))))))
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Oder es vielleicht auch auf Deutsch probieren, ist leichter
@MorganOthelloLafay: The B-52G nuclear bomber did not (!) crash near Spain: wapedia . mobi/en/1968_Thule_Air_Base_B-52_crash . The USS Scorpion came to close to Atlantis: the Germs keep a jealous watch over it. ’82 Falkland-war was funny, too… Prince William is battling to go to the Falkland Islands next year as an RAF search-and-rescue helicopter pilot. LEGEND XD XD XD
@DasWaldkind The USS Scorpion was a decrease in the Azores!!
The bomber with the hydrogen bombs, crashed in Spain. All a bit further away from Neuschwabenland.
@MorganOthelloLafay: 13.feb – 3.march ’47, less than 3 weeks and the Americans gave up. 1958 International Geophysical Year (IGY). US Thule Air Base is home to the821st Air Base Group and 21st Space Wing’s global network of sensors providing missile warning, space surveillance and space control – boasts more than 3,000 U.S. and international flights per year. 21 Jan 68: A U.S. B-52G nuclear bomber crashed on the ice seven miles west of Thule Air Base. May 68 USS Scorpion sinks. Modern legend.
Seit 1997 ist Neuschwabenland Ziel von Bergsteiger-Expeditionen und wird bei Bedarf von kommerziellen Veranstaltern angeflogen. Als Basis dient eine Schneebeton-Flugpiste südlich der Novolazarevskaya-Station. Regelmäßige Flüge werden seit 2002 mit einer Iljuschin 76TD von Kapstadt zum „Novo Airfield“ angeboten, die sowohl von Wissenschaftlern als auch von Touristen genutzt werden. Betreiber der Flugverbindung ist die antarktische Fluggesellschaft Antarctic Logistic Centre International ALC
@docatomics We are sure that there was no German base there.
There was? only one expedition 1938/39!
This part of Antarctica is, since 1939 a part of Norway.
The name is Dronning Maud Land!
A part of the expedition documents are today, “GERMAN GEODETIC COMMISSION at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences”
(Geschichte und Entwicklung der Geodäsie Heft Nr. 24, Teil I)
If you want I send you a link! Between 1949 and today, it was a lot of expeditions there
That is probably just a modern legend
…There has been much speculation over this manouver and that the main objective was to seek out, access and if possilbe dominate the nazi presence on Antiaritca, but I have yet to see any evidence that they found any such presence or that the withdrawl was due to a ass kicking from such a force.
~would not such accounts have been leak to the public by more than a few of the 4,700 survivors by now.
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Operation Highjump (OpHjp), officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946-47, was a United States Navy operation organized by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd in Antarctica under the command of Richard Cruzen, which was launched on 26 August 1946 and ended abruptly in late February 1947, six months earlier than planned. The massive Antarctic task force included 4,700 men, 13 ships, and multiple aircraft.