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The northern winter was coming, and Highjump was a quickly planned exercise to move the whole thing to the South Pole. The Navy had done a training exercise there in the summer of 1946 and felt it needed to do more. The nuclear age had just begun, and the real fears were that the Soviet Union would attack the United States over the North Pole. Highjump was a significant illustration of the state of the world and the cold war thinking at the time. naval expedition had been in Antarctica for 100 years before that, not since the Wilkes expedition of 1838–42. casualties in Antarctica (see “Executive Editor Paul Hoversten asked Dian Olson Belanger, a historian of polar exploration and the author of Deep Freeze: The United States, the International Geophysical Year, and the Origins of Antarctica’s Age of Science (University Press of Colorado, 2006), to talk about Highjump and its legacy.Ī & S: What was the significance of Operation Highjump?īelanger: No U.S. The three Navy airmen who in 1946 became the first U.S.
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