“ALREADY BEEN THERE”
Admiral Dufek’s Comment
“I am surprised and puzzled at Mr Allen’s statement. There cannot be any race for the simple reson that we have already been there.” said Rear Admiral George J. Dufek, commander of U.S. Antarctic forces, when Mr Alien’s report was referred to him last evening. Rear-Admiral Dufek said that in January. 1947, he commanded a task group of three ships. His flagship was the Pine Island. With two Mariner seaplanes the task group was operating along the ice belt in the Bellinghausen sea area. “We flew over the ice belt and photographed that part of the coastline which has beeh called the Phantom Coast. One of our aircraft crashed on the Thurston Peninsula and we can prove it With three dead bodies, three crosses and three American flags buried there. “We rescued the four survivors of .the crew by landing a seaplane in open water alongside the coast and brought them back over the ice belt to the Pine Island.” Rear-Admiral Dufek said that the Navy’s mission in the Antarctic was to resupply existing bases, exchange personnel this season, and reduce the number of bases from seven to four. “If
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28784, 3 January 1959, Page 14
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