Operation Deep Freeze, Dewline, Arctic & Antarctic Operations

[Salvage Sailor]

NOAA AGASP 1983-1985

Arctic Gas and Aerosol Sampling Program - Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)

 

[Salvage Sailor]

US Naval Support Force Antarctica 30th Anniversary 1954-1984

[Bearmon]

I am beginning to think there are a lot of Staten Island patch styles,

here is another one.

[Salvage Sailor]

You beat me to that one, I've got the twin.....

[Salvage Sailor]

Here is another one I picked up it is a USNS but an EX USS ship the USS Redbud a nice Japanese made patch.

redbud.jpg

 

 

Another version of the converted USCGC Buoy Tender USNS REDBUD (T-AKL-398)

[Salvage Sailor]

Naval Arctic Research Laboratory

[digi-shots]

Salvage Sailor, do you have any patches relating to “Mericle Rock” - Antarctica?

 

Thanks!

[Salvage Sailor]

I have some USGS items related to Antarctica but nothing specific to Mericle Rock on Campbell Glacier, Victoria Land

[digi-shots]

I have some USGS items related to Antarctica but nothing specific to Mericle Rock on Campbell Glacier, Victoria Land

I recently picked up a grouping named to Dave Mericle, same USN Electronics Tech that Mericle Rock was named after. (I posted some pics in the Groupings section)

 

I googled it quite a bit but really havent found much on it. How does someone get a nanatak rock out cropping named after them?? Are there any Navy journals that you know of that I could search? I would like to read up on it.

 

Thanks!

[Bearmon]

I recently picked up a grouping named to Dave Mericle, same USN Electronics Tech that Mericle Rock was named after. (I posted some pics in the Groupings section)

 

I googled it quite a bit but really havent found much on it. How does someone get a nanatak rock out cropping named after them?? Are there any Navy journals that you know of that I could search? I would like to read up on it.

 

Thanks!

 

You can start here: https://geonames.usgs.gov/antarctic/

[digi-shots]

Bearmon, thanks for the link!

 

Mericle Rock:

A nunatak in the middle of Campbell Glacier, approximately 9 mi from its head, in Victoria Land. Mapped by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960-64. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for David L. Mericle, U.S. Navy (USN), electronics technician at McMurdo Station, 1967.

 

I'd like to find a patch to go with his grouping...

 

[digi-shots]

From the Antarctic Research Atlas... I've placed a circle and noted "Mericle Rock".

 

[Bearmon]

What kind of patch are you hoping to locate?

[digi-shots]

I’m not really knowledgeable on “Antarctic” patches... are there any with McMurdo Station on them. Might be a good search for me.

[Salvage Sailor]

Arctic Submarine Laboratory (ASL) - Land of the ICEX, The Navy's Arctic Submarine Laboratory (ASL) is a Fleet Support Detachment of Commander, Undersea Warfighting Development Center (UWDC).

 

http://www.public.navy.mil/subfor/uwdc/asl/Pages/default.aspx

[Salvage Sailor]

Set of USS ARNEB (AKA-56) Deep Freeze patches - Andromeda class attack cargo ship in service 1944 to 1971.  Polar logistic ship 1955-1964. Flagship of Deep Freeze I and made multiple Arctic and Antarctic voyages

 

 

 

USS ARNEB (AKA-56) Andromeda class attack cargo ship in service 1944 to 1971. 4 battle stars WWII, MUC for Apollo 7 recovery mission.

 

 

 

 

ANTARCTIC EXPRESS

 

 

 

 

[Salvage Sailor]

Another version USS ARNEB (AKA-56) ANTARCTIC EXPRESS

[Bearmon]

USS Glacier AGB 4 Operation Deep Freeze 1956-57

[Bearmon]

Operation Deep Freeze Antarctic DEVRON Six

[Salvage Sailor]

VXE-6 Puckered Penguins Antarctic Search and Rescue Team

[Salvage Sailor]

NAVSUPPFOR ANTARCTICA - US NAVAL SUPPORT FORCE ANTARCTICA DETACHMENT ALFA

 

WINTER OVER 1976 Bicentennial

[Salvage Sailor]

WILLIAMS FIELD (willy field) - Operation Deep Freeze - Southernmost Naval Air Traffic Control Headquarters - South Pole Williams Field MAC (Military Airlift Command) Center

 

Williams Field is named in honor of Richard T. Williams, a United States Navy equipment operator who drowned when his D-8 tractor broke through the ice on January 6, 1956. Williams and other personnel were participants in the first Operation Deep Freeze, a U.S. military mission to build a permanent science research station at McMurdo Station in anticipation of the International Geophysical Year 1957–58

[Salvage Sailor]

WILLIAMS FIELD (willy field) - Operation Deep Freeze

Williams Field is named in honor of Richard T. Williams, a United States Navy equipment operator who drowned when his D-8 tractor broke through the ice on January 6, 1956. Williams and other personnel were participants in the first Operation Deep Freeze, a U.S. military mission to build a permanent science research station at McMurdo Station in anticipation of the International Geophysical Year 1957–58

[Salvage Sailor]

McMURDO STATION, ANTARCTICA

[Salvage Sailor]

USS GLACIER (AGB-4) Improved Wind class Icebreaker in USN service 1955 to 1966. She participated in 11 Deep Freeze operations for the USN. Later in USCG service 1966 to 1987