CHRISTMAS IN ANTARCTIC
Tree Dropped To Trail Party
“A Christmas tree came like manna from heaven to the United States Army-Navy ■ trail party blazing a trail across the waste of snow to the heart of Marie Byrd land,” said Mr Pat Trese, commentator for the National Broadcasting Company, on his return from the Antarctic. Mr Trese left Christchurch yesterday for the United States in the Globemaster accompanying the State of Washington to the Norton Air Force base in California for repairs. He was with the trail party commanded by Major Merle Dawson when a Globemaster, State of Florida, dropped a green Christmas tree from Oregon to the trail party as it approached the site of the Marie Byrd scientific station.
“It took us all by surprise,” said Mr Trese. “We thought part of the aircraft had fallen off until one of the trail crew identified it as a small fir tree and began dancing in glee. Then we found the Christmas ornaments attached to one of the platforms of diesel oil dropped by the Globemaster City of Peoria. Not one was broken in the drop. “That really brought Christmas home to all of us so far from home, there in the midst of one of the biggest snow deserts in the world,” Mr Trese said.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28180, 19 January 1957, Page 12
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