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Show One Navy tractor moved 10,-800,000 10,-800,000 cubic feet of snow to clear a sea ice landing strip for planes arriving in the Antarctic from New Zealand last October. The Navy delivered a hundred million pounds of cargo to the Antarctic during Operation Deepfreeze. Chapels have been built at 2 Antarctic bases by Navy sea-bees sea-bees working in their off-duty hours. The Navy icebreaker USS Glacier made the earliest penetration pene-tration of Antarctica's ice peak in history, arriving at McMurdo Sound Oct. 28, 1956. |