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Show Parents Learn Of Son's Departure For South Pole Seaman First Class Don H. Rudy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Czar Rudy of Roosevelt, left San Diego, December 2, aboard the USS Currituck, bound for the Antarctic with the Byrd Polar Expedition. The Currituck was among the first contingent of ships to depart for the South Pole. The evening before his departure, de-parture, Seaman Rudy called his parents on long distance to advise ad-vise them that he was leaving, and that it would probably be impossible for him to contact them again unless he had an opportunity op-portunity to do so upon arriving in Australia. He advised them that once the Currituck reaches its base in the Antarctic there will be no mail in or out of the region. Seaman Rudy learned about three weeks prior to the departure depart-ure of the Byrd expedition that he had been chosen as a crew member of the Currituck, the seaplane tender which will service ser-vice the planes to be used in flights across the South Pole. The expedition has tentative ly set its return to the United States as May, but is provisioned to remain in the Antarctic for an additional two months. Don H. Rudy entered the naval na-val service December 13, 1945. He was a student at the Roosevelt Roose-velt high school and would have been a member of the graduating class of 1946. He received his basic training at San Diego and San Francisco. |