Christmas Flight To Pole
Aboard U.S.S. Glacier. DECEMBER 22. Santa Claus will drop in at the South Pole on Sunday. December 23. with a Christmas stocking 'or the 25 men constructing the American scientific base there.
A surprise packet flight, which the Pole population knows nothing about, has been arranged by Rear-A< miral George J. Dufek. United States Navy task force commander in the Antarctic. A Neptune flown by LieutenantCommander J. T. Torbet. will make the flight. In the stockings will be turkeys, trimmings, and ingredients for mince pies, with decorations to add to the Christmas tree already dropped from an aircraft. There -vill also be candy and a load of mail brought south by the Glacier from New Zealand. The mail includes a huge Christmas cake baked by a Christchurch friend of Chief Mechanic Charles M. Slaton, who wintered at McMurdo this year. Asked whether the men would have any beer to drink, Rear-Admiral Dufek replied, with a smile: “They didn’t tell me, but I guess there will be some brandy or something like that ,for the sponge cake.”
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28159, 24 December 1956, Page 12
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