A charming if a bit sanctimonious account of Operation Highjump by the chaplain of that 1947 expedition aboard USS Mount Olympus.
Strong Men South.
Menster, William J. Milwaukee: Bruce Publishing, 1949.
- 1946-48 US Operation Highjump, Byrd’s Fourth Expedition to Little America (aboard USS Mount Olympus).
- Antarctic Reading: Expeditions
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Assault on Eternity: Richard Byrd and the Exploration of Antarctica, 1946-47.
Rose, Lisle Abbott. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1980.
- 1946-48 US Operation Highjump, Byrd’s Fourth Expedition to Little America (aboard USS Mount Olympus).
- Antarctic Reading: Expeditions
Preview
This is a true tale of daring and romance, of tedium and tragedy, of folly and heroism, of adventure enjoyed and adventure endured one-third of a century ago by some forty-seven hundred men in thirteen ships at the bottom of the earth.